Perinatal Lead Community Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Do you aspire to change people's lives for the better? We are looking to recruit a talented Perinatal Lead Community Mental Health Practitioner 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.

The successful candidate will join our South West Team (based in Godalming) with one vacancy of flexible hours to be agreed between 0.6 and 1 WTE. As a lead member of the team, you will provide specialist assessments and interventions to women during the perinatal period up to 24 months postnatal. Each team works closely with the mental health midwives and obstetricians from the local maternity unit. The SW Team covers Royal Surrey County Hospital and Frimley Park. You will hold a caseload of women for a specified locality and participate in triaging new referrals on a rotational basis supported by experienced team members.

The post holder will develop strong links with the Parent Infant mental health service, Health Visiting, Family Nurse Partnership, Midwifery, Adult mental health, Children's services and the voluntary sector.

The ability to work across Surrey is essential and a car is required.

Main duties of the job

This role will be responsible for providing high quality mental health care within the perinatal service, by ensuring relevant clinical supervision is provided to staff, standards of service provision are set, monitored and maintained and that the women who use the service are involved in the service in the way they wish to be.

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!

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Berkeley House

11-13 Ockford Road

Godalming

GU7 1QU

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Berkeley House

11-13 Ockford Road

Godalming

GU7 1QU

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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