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Perinatal Mental Health Specialist Midwife
| Posting date: | 10 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £51,883.00 to £58,544.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51883.00 - £58544.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 March 2025 |
| Location: | Isleworth, TW7 6AF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9289-SC-2374-A |
Summary
Clinical / direct care practice Support, assist and advise women with, or at risk of, perinatal mental illness and their families to supplement the care provided by their midwives where necessary, for example working with women and their midwives to develop individual care plans, and making referrals to additional specialist support where required. Act as an advocate for women to ensure they get the specialist mental health care they need. Liaise with mental health services, and other services and partner agencies to ensure that women with severe mental illness are receiving active and effective care. This includes a close working relationship with the safeguarding team. Ensure research findings relevant to mental health are integrated into the practices and policies of the hospital. Encourage and take an active role in the evaluation of new approaches to practice. Maintain accurate and contemporaneous records of patients assessments, care and plans. Leadership and Collaborative Practice Understand the impact of poor maternal mental health on infants and other family members, and the role that maternity services can play in mitigating this. Develop and maintain a basic working knowledge of mental health legislation, policy and guidance. Provide a link between midwives, GPs, health visitors, obstetricians, specialist mental health services, safeguarding services (where applicable) and other agencies in relation to the care of pregnant women andnew mothers with mental health problems. Develop comprehensive care pathways for women and families affected by mild, moderate and severe maternal mental health problems in active collaboration with specialist perinatal mental health services and other providers of health services (e.g. GPs, Health visitors, IAPT services, 3rd sector organisations). Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.