Job summary
Are you an RMN looking for an interesting and varied role where you can develop your career while providing a vital service? No previous perinatal experience is required as full training is provided.
We can offer you full training, excellent support and the chance to be part of our well established, highly skilled and friendly team.
You'll be keen to learn, empathetic, possess excellent communication skills, and be as passionate as we are about delivering excellent care to the parents and infants we look after.
What we offer:
- A stable, supportive and innovative working environment with the potential for future career development
- Significant training and development opportunities (we invest in our staff)
- Social hours - typically 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with no weekend working.
- We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week - typically 3 days each week working from a hospital, community setting, or conducting home visits, and 2 days working from home
- Full or part time opportunities available(minimum 4 days per week)
- As a team our values of Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we look after each other and our patients
- Regular supportive line management and supervision
A comprehensive CPD and reflective practice program
Main duties of the job
In this role you'll help us ensure women who are pregnant and booked for delivery, and/or have infants under 24 months, receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs, and that these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
Using your initiative and knowledge you'll liaise with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals' meetings.
On a day to day basis you'll effectively manage a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in children's centres, joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals and care planning meetings.
Another part of this role will be the provision of on-going training, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.
As a team we cover three boroughs, Ealing, Hounslow, Hammersmith & Fulham. The service has operational bases at St Bernard's Hospital site (Ealing PMHS), Lakeside Mental Health Unit (Hounslow PMHS), and Hammersmith Hospital (H&F PMHS), and work in community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children's centres).
About us
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.
The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'.
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- RMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role
- Current / up to date entry on the mentorship register (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Dual qualified as RGN, midwife or health visitor
- Specialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health
- Clinical supervision training
- Qualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant post qualification experience working in mental health services
- oExperience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
- oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
Desirable
- oExperience working with women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
- oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- oExperience of delivering both individual and group based interventions
- oEvidence of networking within the Perinatal specialty
- oExperience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- oExperience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- oExperience of undertaking complex mental health and mental state, risk and needs assessments (
- oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
Desirable
- Computer literate to an intermediate level
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- RMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role
- Current / up to date entry on the mentorship register (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Dual qualified as RGN, midwife or health visitor
- Specialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health
- Clinical supervision training
- Qualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant post qualification experience working in mental health services
- oExperience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
- oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
Desirable
- oExperience working with women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
- oExperience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
- oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- oExperience of delivering both individual and group based interventions
- oEvidence of networking within the Perinatal specialty
- oExperience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- oExperience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- oExperience of undertaking complex mental health and mental state, risk and needs assessments (
- oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
Desirable
- Computer literate to an intermediate level
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
