Clinical Nurse Specialist for Perinatal Mental Health | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	12 Mawrth 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£51,883 - £58,544 pro rata pa inc
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	11 Ebrill 2025
Lleoliad:	Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6LT
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7016008/277-7016008-CMH

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Oxleas Perinatal Service is offering an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team providing specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal mental health care for women from preconception, during pregnancy and up to one year postnatal in the boroughs of Bexley, Bromley or Greenwich.

The post holder will work collaboratively with others in the team as well as professionals from other services including Community Mental Health Teams, IAPT, maternity services, GPs and health visiting as well as with our experts by experience, to build on the achievements to date and continue to develop this high quality service to ensure excellent outcomes for women and their families.

We are looking for a clinician with a special interest in improving care for women and their families. Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable; a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.

All applicants must have excellent clinical skills and a good level of post registration experience, proven ability to complete comprehensive mental state examinations, thoroughly assess risk, and document and communicate these clearly and concisely. There will be regular opportunities for training and development within the role.

The Perinatal Mental Health service will be delivered by three borough-based teams providing specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal mental health care for women from preconception, during pregnancy and up to one year (expanding to two years) postnatal who live in one of the three London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. The three teams are co-located at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup.

Please see Job description for more information.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care

To 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. This service will be delivered in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused.

This will be achieved through:
• Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review
• Training other staff
• Joint work with other staff
• Advice and consultation to other staff
• Liaison work with maternity services
• Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff
• Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality

Key relationships:
• Members of the Perinatal Mental Health Team
• Midwives
• Safeguarding Children Team – Associate Director and Named Professionals
• All Trust services in assigned borough
• Liaison Psychiatry
• Local MBUs
• Local maternity Safeguarding Children Teams
• Princess Royal University maternity services, Queen Elizabeth Hospital
maternity wards and Darenth Valley maternity services
• Children’s Social Care Services

Key tasks and responsibilities:
1. To provide specialist case management to a caseload of pregnant women and women with a baby up to and over 12 months old.
2. As a member of the perinatal team, you will be expected to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing specialist assessment and follow up for women
referred with moderate to severe perinatal mental health problems in a variety of settings- inpatient (acute maternity ward, general adult psychiatry inpatient wards and community (including home, children’s centres, maternity clinics)
3. To participate in the screening of referrals in line with local team arrangements
4. To record and update on the Trust and maternity computerised client information systems ensuring that entries are accurate and contemporaneous.
5. To be accountable for own professional action and to seek advice and supervision from line manager where needed over ethical issues and Trust


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