Job summary
We are looking for a talented and highly motivated professional to join our Perinatal Mental Health Service as an 8a service manager. This role will provide leadership and management to three locality team mangers and take overall responsibility for the effective provision and strategic development of the Surrey wide Perinatal Mental Health service.
Service Overview
The Surrey Perinatal Mental Health Service is highly regarded and is accredited with the Royal College of Psychiatry Perinatal Quality Network demonstrating the service meets the highest standard of care.
Aims of the Service
The aims of the Surrey Perinatal Mental Health Service are to ensure that:
Every woman has access to services to support psychosocial wellbeing of herself, her infant, and her family and to prevent mental illness during the antenatal period until two years after delivery
Every woman can access quality perinatal mental health care and treatment at the right time, at the right level and at the right location
Main duties of the job
Following a service expansion this year there are three locality teams as part of a Surrey wide service. This role offers operational management for these teams. The teams are made up of:
East Team based at Horizon House, Epsom
North West, based at Unither House, Chertsey
South West, new base at Berkley house, Godalming.
Each team is multidisciplinary and includes:
Team Manager
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
Specialist Doctor
Senior Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist
Lead Community Mental Health Practitioners
Perinatal Mental Health Practitioners
Nursery Nurse
Team Administrator
Peer Support Worker
Team members working across all three teams:
Service Manager
Principal clinical psychologist
Occupational Therapists
Assessment & Triage Practitioners
Assistant Psychologists
Senior Practitioners (Social Worker)
Performance, Quality and Administration Manager
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 and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
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
- Be responsible for the operational delivery of the clinical service.
- To ensure that service operates in line with trust policies and procedures
- To directly provide clinical and managerial supervision.
- Monitor and maintain service budget.
- Manage the development and implementation of the specialist teaching/training packages which will be delivered to a range of multi-disciplinary audiences.
- To work as a member of the MDT to ensure the delivery of safe and effective services.
- To ensure effective pathways of care and inter service coordination. e.g. midwifery services
- To ensure that perinatal services work closely with other services that are subject to the long term plan e.g. Maternal mental Health and Parent Infant Mental Health.
- To ensure service is fully accessible and responsive to those with protected characteristics in a way that challenges existing and potential health inequalities.
- To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance the womans experience and reduce risk of relapse.
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and to agree further action
- To ensure that the service meets the Perinatal Quality Network Standards.
- To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers as appropriate, involvement in all aspects of their care.
- To ensure that the service meets statutory requirements eg Health and Safety
- To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognized standards
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for the operational delivery of the clinical service.
- To ensure that service operates in line with trust policies and procedures
- To directly provide clinical and managerial supervision.
- Monitor and maintain service budget.
- Manage the development and implementation of the specialist teaching/training packages which will be delivered to a range of multi-disciplinary audiences.
- To work as a member of the MDT to ensure the delivery of safe and effective services.
- To ensure effective pathways of care and inter service coordination. e.g. midwifery services
- To ensure that perinatal services work closely with other services that are subject to the long term plan e.g. Maternal mental Health and Parent Infant Mental Health.
- To ensure service is fully accessible and responsive to those with protected characteristics in a way that challenges existing and potential health inequalities.
- To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance the womans experience and reduce risk of relapse.
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and to agree further action
- To ensure that the service meets the Perinatal Quality Network Standards.
- To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers as appropriate, involvement in all aspects of their care.
- To ensure that the service meets statutory requirements eg Health and Safety
- To research national best practice and enable services to benchmark practice against nationally recognized standards
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 3 years' experience in a Clinical Team Leader or a Clinical Management role
- Experience of working in perinatal mental health services
- Experience of providing clinical and management supervision
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registration as an RMN or HCPC as a Social Worker
Desirable
- A post graduate clinical or managerial qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 3 years' experience in a Clinical Team Leader or a Clinical Management role
- Experience of working in perinatal mental health services
- Experience of providing clinical and management supervision
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registration as an RMN or HCPC as a Social Worker
Desirable
- A post graduate clinical or managerial qualification
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
