Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Community Perinatal Mental Health Service within the county wide Norfolk & Suffolk Perinatal Community Mental Health Service. We are offering a maternity leave cover 12 months fixed term/secondment opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to work within a highly specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal setting. This role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop specialist skills in perinatal mental health, with a strong focus on thinking about the whole family system, including the parent infant relationship.
You will work as part of a large, supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, including:
- Consultant Psychiatrists
- Consultant Clinical Psychologist
- Therapies team
- Registered Nurses
- Social Workers
- Assistant Practitioners
- Peer Support Workers
- Nursery Nurses
- Occupational Therapists
- Community Team Managers
- A Matron and an Operational Manager specialising in perinatal mental health
This post sits within the West and South Patch of the Norfolk teams, including King’s Lynn.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Managing a caseload of women with moderate to severe mental health needs during the perinatal period
- Undertaking comprehensive initial assessments, including the use of outcome measures
- Developing and reviewing trauma informed, co produced care plans, including signposting to appropriate services
- Working collaboratively with maternity services, primary care, social services and tertiary services to improve outcomes for the birthing person, baby and wider family
- Maintaining a focus on the parent infant relationship
- Participating in the duty rota, responding to urgent clinical matters
- Escalating safeguarding concerns appropriately to Early Childhood and Family Services / Children’s Services
- Ensuring all service users have a current combined assessment and care plan
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
The Perinatal Community Mental Health Team provides prevention, detection and treatment of mental health difficulties during pregnancy and up to two years post partum.
The service offers a range of interventions including therapeutic work, nursery nurse interventions, medication reviews, consultant appointments and peer support advocacy.
As this is a community based role, most work is carried out face to face in service users’ homes or community settings. Access to your own vehicle is preferred; however, pool cars are available through the Trust hire car system.
We are a cohesive, friendly, and kind team and will support you every step of the way.
Some of the benefits you can expect:
- NHS pension
- a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
- career progression
- starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
- staff physio service
- NHS discounts and many more.
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Please be aware that, due to the high number of applications for certain roles, this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
YOUR APPLICATION
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.
As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification).. We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.
This post may be 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.
