Specialist Perinatal Social Worker

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

C&M SPMMHS, which includes SPS, is jointly provided by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, providing highly specialist assessment and treatment to mums, babies, and families from pregnancy through to 24 months. MMHS is hosted by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, with a focus on perinatal loss and trauma and is a collaboration with the Local Maternity & Neonatal System. Perinatal mental health care remains a national priority in the NHS Long Term Plan. Considering the strong financial case for investment in prevention and the long-term whole system benefits to be achieved due to the role of Perinatal Mental Health Teams in prevention, expected to be realised in Children and Young People Mental Health Services, adult mental health services, A&E and physical health care settings.
As a Social Worker within Specialist Perinatal Services (SPS), the post holder will provide a specialised role in the development and implementation of services and care pathways for women, birthing people and their families within SPMMHS in line with the ambitions of the Perinatal Mental Health (PMH) Long Term Plan (LTP).
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist assessment/interventions with women and birthing people alongside advice, consultancy and supervision, within the service line and where required to external partner agencies. As the post is identified within the PMH LTP , it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist assessment/interventions with women and birthing people alongside advice, consultancy and supervision, within the service line and where required to
external partner agencies. As the post is identified within the PMH LTP , it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives

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