Perinatal Mental Health Operational Lead | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	15 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£50,008 - £56,908 per annum ( Incl of HCAS)
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	14 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Bracknell, RG12 1BQ
Cwmni:	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Cytundeb
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7737536/371-CFS645

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The Berkshire Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service is seeking for an experienced, compassionate Operational Lead (Band 7) to provide daytoday operational leadership to our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service during an exciting period of service transformation. This is a 6month FTC or internal secondment opportunity designed to stabilise operations, support clinical leadership, and help shape the future model of the service.


Contract type: 6month fixed term or internal secondment.


Base details: Office Location: Resource House – Wokingham. RG40 2BB.

Woking hours: 09:00 – 17:00


Hybrid working


The service is undertaking a structured transformation programme including reviewing the service structure, care pathways, digital improvements, flow and capacity; this post will evolve the operational function of the team while maintaining safe, highquality care. You’ll be the operational anchor for the team—supporting clinicians, improving flow, and implementing change.

• Provide operational leadership for the multidisciplinary perinatal team—managing rota/cover, demand & capacity, and daytoday service coordination.

• Partner with clinical leads and clinicians to uphold safety, quality, and timely access to care, ensuring pathways align with perinatal best practice.

• Lead continuous improvement during transformation: capture insights, implement small tests of change, and roll out agreed service enhancements.

• Monitor performance (activity, waiting times, caseloads), escalate risk, and coordinate responses to operational pressures.

• Build collaborative relationships across maternity, primary care, CAMHS, adult mental health, social care, and voluntary sector partners.

• Contribute to future role design, providing evidence and recommendations to inform the permanent team operating model


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites



The “must haves” for this role

• Registered professional (e.g., RMN/RN, Social Worker, OT or similar) — or any registration with a relevant and substantial knowledge of mental health conditions, risk management, clinical interventions, treatments and services.

• Substantial experience working in perinatal, maternal, or adult mental health services.

• Proven ability to demonstrate leadership and operational management skills.

• Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving abilities.

• Commitment to continuous professional development.

• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and across service boundaries.

• Excellent communicator with the ability to remain calm under pressure.





For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.


We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.


We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.


We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Kendra Ainley – Transformation Lead on phone number: 07939846882, or email Kendra.ainley@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.


Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.



This advert closes on Thursday 29 Jan 2026

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