Perinatal Mental Health Midwife

at  The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

This is a key role in developing and maintaining high standards of care for women and birthing people with mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period, and their families.
You will have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills, which you will use to manage, develop and lead care for pregnant people and new mothers/parents with mental health needs. You will be responsible for providing specialist support and care to pregnant women/people with more severe mental health problems, in partnership with their own midwife and the specialist perinatal mental health team. You will provide a link between the maternity service and other services involved in mental health care , including the local primary care therapy service (IAPT) and perinatal mental health team.
You will work closely with women/birthing people and their families to plan and coordinate their care based on their individual needs.
Maintain a high visible presence in the department and community services acting as an effective role model and expert clinician.
Assess the needs of women referred into the service and produce a personalised care plan to meet the needs of the woman and her baby
Work collaboratively with the MDT to deliver high quality of perinatal mental health care
Work collaboratively with key stakeholders in the development of service redesign.
Responsible for proposing and implementing high quality guidance that is in line with the latest national policies, evidence and best practice, to underpin the continuous improvement of maternity services in the context of perinatal mental health.
Cover Manager on call shifts on a monthly basis .
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
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