Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist

at  East London NHS Foundation Trust

Would you like to add Perinatal mental health care to your clinical career? Newham Perinatal Mental Health Team is a specialist mental health team that supports women and birthing people in the perinatal period with moderate to severe mental health difficulties using a multi-disciplinary approach. The team is recruiting for a full time band 7 nurse for 12 month maternity leave cover. The successful post holder will be passionate about perinatal mental health, and will be able to manage a caseload of women in the diverse borough. You will work closely with relevant multi-agency partners and also be an aide to junior staff within the multi-disciplinary team. Management of acute crisis is essential
To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, or have infants under 1 years old receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review, training other staff, joint work with other staff, advice and consultation to other staff, facilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings, to offer advice where appropriate, liaison work with maternity services, and promoting the development of Perinatal mental health services in assigned locality
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
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