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Perinatal Counselling Service Coordinator and Group Work Facilitator
| Posting date: | 04 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata, per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2024 |
| Location: | Hailsham, BN21 2UD |
| Company: | ESHT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6298378/374-LBSMc001 |
Summary
A Vacancy at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.
Are you passionate about perinatal & infant mental health?
Would you like to make a difference for families and children in East Sussex?
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Team, to coordinate the delivery of our Perinatal Counselling Service and wider team interventions.
We are looking for a suitably qualified and highly motivated person to join ourcompassionate, motivated skill mix teamand help develop and deliver high quality interventions that promote healthy parent-infant relationships and perinatal mental health, in line with the Critical 1001 Days vision.
The Perinatal Counselling Service offers free counselling to parents & carers in East Sussex experiencing mild-moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing problems during pregnancy up to a year post birth.
In addition to this the role will include supporting the wider team interventions, including the facilitation of ‘Time for Me’ postnatal support groups and our duty service, guiding referrals from the wider service into the most appropriate intervention for that individual family’s needs.
· Coordinate the daily running of the Perinatal Counselling Service to include screening, triaging & allocating referrals, liaising with volunteer counsellors, clients, and partners, and reporting on service performance and strategy.
· Facilitate PIMH interventions, such as ‘Time for Me’, as agreed within the team.
· To help shape the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) team as it expands in line with the Family Hubs and Start for Life agenda.
· Provide PIMH triage support and advice to the Heath Visiting service as part of a duty system.
· Liaise and build connections with other primary and secondary mental health services to advance the improvement of PIMH services within East Sussex.
· Provide training and support to staff as needed in line with the development of the service.
· Support and offer peer supervision for Volunteer Perinatal Counsellors.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024
Are you passionate about perinatal & infant mental health?
Would you like to make a difference for families and children in East Sussex?
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Perinatal & Infant Mental Health Team, to coordinate the delivery of our Perinatal Counselling Service and wider team interventions.
We are looking for a suitably qualified and highly motivated person to join ourcompassionate, motivated skill mix teamand help develop and deliver high quality interventions that promote healthy parent-infant relationships and perinatal mental health, in line with the Critical 1001 Days vision.
The Perinatal Counselling Service offers free counselling to parents & carers in East Sussex experiencing mild-moderate mental health and emotional wellbeing problems during pregnancy up to a year post birth.
In addition to this the role will include supporting the wider team interventions, including the facilitation of ‘Time for Me’ postnatal support groups and our duty service, guiding referrals from the wider service into the most appropriate intervention for that individual family’s needs.
· Coordinate the daily running of the Perinatal Counselling Service to include screening, triaging & allocating referrals, liaising with volunteer counsellors, clients, and partners, and reporting on service performance and strategy.
· Facilitate PIMH interventions, such as ‘Time for Me’, as agreed within the team.
· To help shape the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) team as it expands in line with the Family Hubs and Start for Life agenda.
· Provide PIMH triage support and advice to the Heath Visiting service as part of a duty system.
· Liaise and build connections with other primary and secondary mental health services to advance the improvement of PIMH services within East Sussex.
· Provide training and support to staff as needed in line with the development of the service.
· Support and offer peer supervision for Volunteer Perinatal Counsellors.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
Please refer to the job description attached.
If you have any questions about this position please do not hesitate to contact us.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024
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