Perinatal Duty Practitioner

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with relevant experience in community mental health to join the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The Hampshire, Frimley and Isle of Wight Perinatal Mental Health Service is a well established and pioneering specialist service consisting of an expert multidisciplinary community team and a mother and baby inpatient unit. The service is also an early implementer site for Maternity Mental Health Services, broadening the remit and profile of specialist interventions available for women/birthing people/birthing people and ensuring an enhanced care pathway. The Perinatal Community Team provides a specialist community service for the assessment and treatment of women with severe mental health problems in pregnancy and up to 2 years postnatal.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse or practitioner with an interest in the field of Perinatal Mental Health to join our duty team. The role of Perinatal Duty mental health practitioner will be to work within the duty team and brief intervention pathway of the Perinatal service to provide timely assessment and contact to patients who have been referred to the service. Duty assessments and contacts are undertaken via video and telephone call. The role also includes working as part of our Brief Intervention pathway within the service to identify and provide brief perinatal interventions to patients with low risk, non-complex perinatal illness.

The successful candidate will be working closely with the duty team and wider team, psychology and medical staff to ensure our service users are given the best care and experience whilst part of the duty pathway, as well as working with outside organisations to ensure robust joint working where needed.

The team base is at Southern House which is located in Otterbourne, nr Winchester, however the service covers the whole of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Therefore, the duty function also covers all areas of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.

Car Driver is essential. Hybrid working is possible.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southern House

Otterbourne

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 2RU

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Southern House

Otterbourne

Winchester

Hampshire

SO21 2RU

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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