Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced RMN to join our expanding Perinatal Mental Health Team. The posts are available at our Cluster 2 team who cover the areas of Bolton, Wigan, Salford, Bury.

We are seeking a compassionate, person centred individual, with a genuine interest in working with women and birthing people, and their families in the perinatal period, who has excellent communication and multi agency liaison skills.

We offer excellent training opportunities to our staff and provide robust supervision to support delivery of high quality care.

The Perinatal Service is commissioned to support women and birthing people throughout Greater Manchester, who experience moderate to severe mental health problems during and after pregnancy, and for their infant up to the age of one year. The Perinatal Service provide assessment, care and treatment including the prevention, detection and management of maternal mental health problems that complicate pregnancy and the postpartum year.

Due to the expansive geography of this service, the post holder should hold a valid driving license.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be responsible for a caseload of women and birthing people experiencing perinatal mental illness, working as a Perinatal Practitioner in partnership with service users and other professionals, managing and coordinating complex packages of care for both mother/birthing person and infant.

The post holder will work in a variety of settings completing routine and urgent assessments of women to assess mental health, risk, and safeguarding.

The post holder will work closely and collaboratively with colleagues in Early Attachment services, IAPT services, maternity services, health visiting, and children's services.

There is also a duty worker element to this role, which will be carried out to support the Referral/assessment system.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Blue Light Card Discounts

Person Specification Essential and Desirable - Education and Qualifications

• Evidence of post registration development
• Have recent experience of providing mental health care, working within an inpatient or community setting, or a generic CMHT in order to demonstrate the required understanding of Risk Management
• Continued professional develop with a specific focus on perinatal mental health.

Essential and Desirable - Experience

• Have recent experience of providing mental health care, working within an inpatient or community setting, or a generic CMHT in order to demonstrate the required understanding of Risk Management
• Experience of working within a perinatal service
• Experience of providing mental health care within the community for women in the perinatal period.

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearper annum pro rata