Job summary
Ever wondred what working in Perinatal Service is like? This is your canhce to find out,
An exciting opportunity has risen in Newham Perinatal Mental Health Team for a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist for 12 month secondment to cover maternity leave. We encourage you to apply for this great development opportunity.
Main duties of the job
o ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. To deliver this in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be done through:
Direct work with perinatal women/birthing people - assessment, treatment, planning and reviewTraining other staffJoint work with other staffAdvice and consultation to other staffFacilitating perinatal pre-birth meetings to offer advice where appropriateLiaison work with maternity servicesLinking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staffPromoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned localityManaging duty and Intensive Pathway
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Kindly refer to the job description and person specification that is attached to the vacancy profile.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Evidence of professional qualification in nursing
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years post qualification experience
- Minimum 3 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of working in a complex multidisciplinary/ multi-agency context
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to provide supervision
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice
- Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Evidence of professional qualification in nursing
- Evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years post qualification experience
- Minimum 3 years post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users via CPA with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of working in a complex multidisciplinary/ multi-agency context
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to provide supervision
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice
- Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Newham Perinatal Mental Health Team
House 15, Glen Road, Newham University Hospital,
London
E13 8SL
Employer's website
https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
