Perinatal Nurse Specialist

Job summary

The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) have an exciting opportunity for motivated and creative Band 6 Nurses (fixed term for 12 months), who may be looking for a chance to develop their skills in the specialist area of Perinatal.

The vacancy is for 1.0wte Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse to work in Ealing borough for the Tri-Borough Perinatal Service.

The Ealing PMH Service has operational bases at Trust Headquarters at Armstrong Way(Ealing PMHS), Hounslow House for the Hounslow PMHS, and Hammersmith Hospital for the H&F PMHS. The PMHS works in an agile way - combination of community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children's centres), home visits and working from home. We require that staff do 60% office work as per Trust requirement.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twenty-four months receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
• Actively liaising with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals' meetings.
• Efficiently managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children's centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings.
• Providing on-going training, supervision, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.
• Participating on rotation in the service daily Duty rota, to support the triage of new referrals and urgent / emergency presentations in the maternity units.
• Supervising and mentoring students in the service.

About us

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.

The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.