Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

COMMUNICATION AND LIAISON

1.Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, women and their families, their careers, and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

2.Impart complex and sensitive information to:

a.Women and their families/carers re assessment, care planning, treatment, and review

b.Primary care teams regarding womens care

c.Multi-disciplinary teams within the womens hospital and LWSW to ensure the provision of consistent well-coordinated care.

d.External agencies also involved in the provision of care e.g.: voluntary and private sector, police, social services, housing, employment etc.

e.Relevant community groups

3.Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and agencies.

4.Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical enquires.

5.Present information some of which may be contentious to women and their families/carers.

Ensure equality of access to services for all women paying particular attention to diversity issues and women from hard-to-reach groups.

CLINICAL

1.Maintain a caseload of appropriate clients.

2.Responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation. Ensuring active involvement of women and their families

3.Triage referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility criteria.

4.Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of the client.

5.Participate in all aspects of safeguarding including safeguarding children to level 3 as set out in safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.

PROFESSIONAL

1.Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line manager and professional lead.

2.Responsible for planning and coordinating own day to day workload in collaboration with the needs of women and their families and the wider needs of the service.

3.Plan and organise case conferences liaising with other agencies as required to meet the needs of women and their families.

4.Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and coordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external agencies.

5.Participate in programs of audit and research within the team and implement the findings.

6.Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided.

7.Participate in the development of Mental Health Services.

8.Maintain up to date client records in a timely and accurate manner.

9.Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.

10.Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for of women and their families, working to the principles of the functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and values set out in them.

11.Contribute to the development of standards for the perinatal mental health service.

12.Aim to uphold the principles and approach of CPA, whether people are formally in CPA or not.

13.Work co-operatively with staff colleagues including accepting staff recent assessment of the client, if the client is transferred to them, in order to minimise the disruption to the client.

14.Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, who are entitled to receive safe and competent care. The womans wishes, feelings, values and beliefs should be taken into consideration as well as the views of the people close to them.

15.Take personal accountability for your own practice. This means that you are answerable for your actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another professional.

16.Ensure that you remain professionally competent by participating in your own and others clinical supervision.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1.To assume responsibility for own personal development.

2.Identify training needs via mode of PDP.

3.To ensure Livewell SW mandatory training is completed at scheduled times.

4.Attend regular CPD events.

5.Maintain Professional registration.

HUMAN RESOURCES

1.Provide clinical supervision for a number of qualified staff.

2.Periodically co-ordinate the activity of the team and facilitate handover meetings.

3.Mentor students allocated to the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Core qualifications in any mental health modality such as Nursing, CPN, Social Worker, OT appropriate registration relevant to professional qualification, post graduate training qualification in methods of working with mental health problems, e.g., CBT, systemic practice, psychological interventions.

Desirable

• Skills in evidence based psychological interventions such as CFT, parent infant interventions such as mentalisation in practice.

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of relevant legislation and Child Protection, National Service Framework, Learning Disability specific legislation and documents, Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act. Knowledge around presentations, interventions in relation to perinatal mental health. An understanding of resilience and vulnerability.

Desirable

• Knowledge of different models of therapy, e.g., CBT, CFT, DBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, solution focused therapy.

Experience

Essential

• Experience (both work and life related) of working in a multidisciplinary context. Management experience, minimum of 3 years post-registration experience of people who have experienced mental health and psychological well-being difficulties. Experience in assessment, including risk, care planning, intervention, and evaluation. Maintaining own safety in the community setting by working within relevant policies. Experience of effective working within a multi-agency safeguarding system, e.g., adult/child protection conferences, child in need meetings. Ability to travel across Plymouth and ability to work flexibly (hours of work and duties) both as an individual and with other colleagues in LWSW and with partner agencies. Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments where required.

Desirable

• Experience in the delivery of training. Experience of service evaluation. Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job. It is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement. Adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act.

Skills

Essential

• Mental Health and Risk assessment, care planning, evaluation, and intervention skills. Well established case management skills and good organisation skills with the ability to prioritise workload. Well-developed communication skills both oral and written. Commitment to anti-oppressive practice. Ability to work in partnership and in collaboration with others, both in and out of own agency/professional background. Commitment to own learning and professional development. Reflective practitioner.

Desirable

• Culturally competent assessment and intervention skills. Specific therapeutic skills relevant to working with the perinatal client group. Consultation skills. Training skills. Self-motivating and able to work on own initiative.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Livewell Southwest

Address

Ridgeview, Plympton Clinic - 1st Floor

Station Road

Plymouth

Devon

PL7 2AU

Employer's website

https://www.livewellsouthwest.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)