Job summary
Are you passionate about supporting mothers, birthing people and their babies during the perinatal period?
Join our compassionate and dynamic team, where you'll play a key role in delivering thoughtful and personalised mental health care.
This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference by providing tailored mental health support for women and birthing people whom experience moderate to severe and complex mental health challenges during the perinatal period.
This is a rewarding role where you'll be part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team working to improve the emotional wellbeing of women and birthing people during the perinatal period and promote healthy, secure attachments between mothers and their babies.
We're committed to improving awareness and raising standards of care across both universal and specialist services, ensuring mothers and their babies receive the support they need during this important time.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide compassionate, evidence-based care to an identified caseload of women, delivering tailored interventions that support maternal mental health and early parent-infant relationships. You will play a vital role in ensuring that care is safe, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of the women and families we serve.
Our team works at the intersection of physical and mental health, bringing together professionals from a range of backgrounds to support families across the perinatal pathway. You'll collaborate with maternity services, GPs, health visitors, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure care is joined-up, high-quality, and accessible.
As part of your role, you'll contribute to safeguarding, support early identification and triage of referrals, provide specialist advice, and help plan and coordinate care packages that are integrated across services. You'll also have the opportunity to contribute to service development, staff training, student mentoring, and clinical supervision, helping to shape the future of perinatal mental health care within the Trust and beyond.
This is more than just a job -- it's a chance to truly make a difference during one of the most critical times in a person's life. If you are committed to holistic, person-centred care and want to be part of a service that values compassion, collaboration, and continuous learning, we would love to hear from you.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached job description and person specification outlines further details in relation to main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached job description and person specification outlines further details in relation to main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (i.e. Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Clinical Supervision qualification.
- Educational qualification.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/Mental Health Capacity Act requirements
- CPA Process.
- Skills and experience in delivering mental health training and education to nonmental health profession
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health settin
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Able to produce well written reports
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Ability to manage risk.
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage own time and that of the team's.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Computer literacy including analysis of data or willingness to train in such
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
Desirable
- Skills in the delivery of attachment and bonding based interventions to mothers with mental illness
- Participation in user involvement in services
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (i.e. Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Clinical Supervision qualification.
- Educational qualification.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/Mental Health Capacity Act requirements
- CPA Process.
- Skills and experience in delivering mental health training and education to nonmental health profession
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems.
- Working within a community mental health settin
Desirable
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Able to produce well written reports
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Ability to manage risk.
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage own time and that of the team's.
- Ability to work flexibly.
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Computer literacy including analysis of data or willingness to train in such
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
Desirable
- Skills in the delivery of attachment and bonding based interventions to mothers with mental illness
- Participation in user involvement in services
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
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).
