This exciting 1-year secondment and maternity cover opportunity involves working as a clinical specialist health visitor for perinatal mental health for 4 days a week. The sole focus of this role will be on specialist clinical perinatal mental health duties with some elements of health visiting work.
The PNMH Clinical Specialist Health Visitor supports universal services through the delivery of training, supervision and specialist advice in areas associated with perinatal and maternal mental health. The role supports the assessment and identification of perinatal mental health and parent infant relationship needs within universal services, helping practitioners to appropriately support families and refer to relevant services where needed, whilst continuing to work collaboratively with specialist teams involved in a family’s care.
This includes supporting the delivery of Emotional Wellbeing Visits, Newborn Behavioural Observations, audit activity, and training in relation to the baby brain, infant mental health, and parental mental health. The post holder will provide clinical expertise to staff, parents, and partner agencies within Bright Start services.
The post holder will also support the Perinatal Mental Health and Parent Infant Relationship workstream as part of the Best Start in Life Family Hubs programme.
We are interested in your aspirations and supporting your career development, so please do make contact if interested.
1. To demonstrate a commitment to best practice in all aspects of peri infant and maternal mental health and work with Bright Start teams and other partners to embed the best practice in Islington, and Whittington Health as a whole.
2. To demonstrate and develop evidence-based knowledge, attitudes and skills to be able to be an expert resource for Bright Start teams, in perinatal mental health and maternal mental health but also in response to the changing needs within primary care, including all the six High Impact Areas.
3. To assess local need and to plan, coordinate and deliver training programmes and workshops to Bright Start staff, and others as appropriate, to promote best practice standards in all aspects of perinatal and maternal mental health including understanding of the baby brain, attachment theory, post-natal depression and anxiety.
4. To participate in planning, carrying out and evaluating audits, research projects and/or innovations following agreed policy and protocol focusing on , emotional wellbeing visits, new born observations and social and emotional assessments made at the mandated contacts.
5. To support the key stakeholder services such as CAMHS, Mental health services and public health to deliver the PNMH strategy within the Bright Start Strategy and Best Start Local Plan with key stake holders.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
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6. To deliver PNMH training and workshops across Islington.
7. To be responsible for the delivery of Healthy Child programme
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