Band 4 Nursery Nurse - Bristol
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Job summary
The Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Team provides support for women who experience serious mental health problems or present with a high risk of relapse during pregnancy and the postnatal period. The team is able to work alongside women and their families until the babies first birthday.
The team work across Bristol, North Somerset, & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). The team has a shared care ethos, working closely with primary care, maternity services, adult mental health teams, early years' services and independent sector organisations to ensure that women can have access to specialist support, advice, risk assessment and care planning in relation to their mental health needs.
The Perinatal Nursery Nurse will work with service users over a variety of areas, but particularly in relation to caring for their child, and ensuring the bonding with, and wellbeing of, their baby. They will have regular contact with the mother; the frequency of this will be agreed between service user and nursery nurse and be dependent on need and level of support required.
Main duties of the job
The Perinatal Nursery Nurse approach will be person centred, adapting to changing needs, but incorporates some of the following:
o Managing the expectation and practicalities of motherhood
o Antenatal support: bonding with bump, looking after yourself during pregnancy, exploring what parting values are important to you. Preparing hospital bag, what equipment/recourses are needed to care for a baby.
o Support with bonding and attachment - postnatal.
o Managing emotions of the mother and signpost to appropriate additional local support if needed (within team and without), and enabling them to feel confident managing their babies emotions.
o Practical parent craft
o Baby Massage (Bonding, value of touch, responsiveness, understanding your babies communication)
o Neonatal Behaviour Observation (NBO)( getting to know your baby)
o Breast/bottle feeding and expressing
o Sleep Hygiene, managing expectations and highlighting sleep patterns in babies
o Support with adapting to new role as a mother
o Early play and development work
o Listening visits (support for mum)
o Signposting (NHS and voluntary/charitable)
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Details
Date posted
31 December 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year (pro rata)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
342-SS197-1224
Job locations
The Coppice
Callington road
Bristol
BS4 5BJ
Employer details
Employer name
Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Address
The Coppice
Callington road
Bristol
BS4 5BJ
Employer's website
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