Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

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Full time
Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better? To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners. Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally. We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training. We are looking for 1 x Perinatal Practitioners (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the SW team at Berkeley House in Godalming, NW team at Unither House in Chertsey and East team at Horizon House in Epsom. You'll be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload. You'll mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students. Main duties of the job

Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, under the supervision of the Clinical Lead Nurse. To ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service. To ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU. Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of women with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community perinatal mental health nursing perspective and expertise. About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby. Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received. Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments. We look forward to receiving your application! Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached Job description and Person specification for further information about the role and responsibilities. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree in health/social care or equivalent qualification/experience Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker Desirable

Evidence of continued professional development Experience

Essential

Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload or service users with a range of mental health conditions Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment Experience of clinically supervising junior and unqualified staff and mentoring students Desirable

Understanding of Perinatal mental health difficulties Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Address

Berkeley House 11-13 Ockford Road Godalming GU7 1QU Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply. 325-6875403-SS

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