Do you aspire to change people’s lives for the better? To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners. Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.
We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.
We are looking to recruit 2 x Band 7 Lead Community Mental Health Practitioners for the South West Team (Godalming) with 1 WTE vacancy and North West Team (Chertsey) with 0.8 WTE. As a lead member of the team, you will provide specialist assessments and interventions to women during the perinatal period up to 12 months postnatal.
Each team works closely with the mental health midwives and obstetricians from the local maternity unit. The SW Team covers Royal Surrey County Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital. The Northwest Team covers St Peter’s Hospital and Kingston Hospital. You will hold a caseload of women for a specified locality.
The post holder will develop strong links with the Parent and Infant Relationship Service (PaIRS), Maternal Mental Health Service (AFLoaT), Health Visiting, Midwifery, Neighbourhood mental health teams, Children’s services and the voluntary sector.
The ability to work across Surrey is essential and a car is required.
- To maintain high standards of care in all areas of practice in accordance with the registered professional body (NMC/HCPC)
- To be involved in triaging of referrals, including appropriate triage screening and assessment within specified timescales across the service.
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
- To participate in the development and implementation of the specialist teaching/training packages which will be delivered to a range of multi-disciplinary audiences.
- Supervise junior qualified and non-qualified staff in the team, including performance management.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Please find attached Job description and Person specification for further information about the role and responsibilities.
