Job summary
The Perinatal Wellbeing Specialist Midwife will work collaboratively, ensuring the delivery of high quality midwifery care that is family-centred, clinically driven and flexible, developing initiatives that support and optimise emotional wellbeing and maternal mental health throughout the maternity journey, particularly providing support to women affected by mild to moderate mental health conditions, birth related trauma and/or tokophobia.
They will work in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and the Perinatal Mental Health Implementation Network and Strategic programme for mental health, and will contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of relevant screening tools, pathways, processes, policies and guidance to identify women and birthing people with mild to moderate mental health conditions, birth related trauma and/or tokophobia and ensure they receive appropriate maternity care, psychological care and support.
Main duties of the job
Undertake a highly visible clinical role, raising the profile of perinatal mental health across the maternity service, leading the strategic maternal mental health agenda. Be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy, providing advice, support, clinical care, supervision and staff training within the area of expertise in order to enhance perinatal mental health care across services at CTMUHB. Act as a lead resource for maternity services with expert knowledge of psychological support for women and birthing people to provide clinical advice and support. Be responsible for close collaborative working, liaison and communication with key teams and agencies such as the maternity team, obstetric team, community midwifery team, Birth Reflections service, specialist perinatal mental health midwife and team, specialist health visitor for perinatal mental health and health visiting teams. Liaise with other local services, including Local Authority, Nurturing Families (Parent-Infant Relationships), third sector, voluntary and charity organisations who provide mental health support, to develop and maximise support for service users across CTMUHB localities. Be expected to act as a professional role model in order to ensure others are enablers to support the priorities for achieving good emotional wellbeing and mental health support in the local population
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isnt fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the Croeso Candidate booklet below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isnt fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see the Croeso Candidate booklet below.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- Registered midwife current NMC registration
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience in maternal / paternal mental health and infant mental health
- Awareness of political and wider health agenda regarding to perinatal mental health
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration qualification
Skills
Desirable
- Proven practice and service development skills to change and influence practice
- Welsh Language Speaking/Listening Skills Level 3
Experience
Essential
- Midwifery clinical experience post qualification
- Knowledge and experience in maternal / paternal mental health and infant mental health
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
- Registered midwife current NMC registration
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge and experience in maternal / paternal mental health and infant mental health
- Awareness of political and wider health agenda regarding to perinatal mental health
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration qualification
Skills
Desirable
- Proven practice and service development skills to change and influence practice
- Welsh Language Speaking/Listening Skills Level 3
Experience
Essential
- Midwifery clinical experience post qualification
- Knowledge and experience in maternal / paternal mental health and infant mental health
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).
