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Location

Ealing, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

Are you an RMN with Perinatal experience looking for a new role where you can develop your career?

We can offer you excellent support and the chance to be part of our well established, highly skilled and friendly team!

When people join our team they tend to stay with us long term. But due to several members of staff relocating, and increasing service demands, we are looking for several nurses to join the Perinatal Mental Health Service here at West London NHS Trust.

You’ll be keen to learn, empathetic, have excellent communication skills and be as passionate as we are about delivering excellent care to the parents and infants we look after.

What we offer:

• A stable, supportive and innovative working environment with the potential for future career development
• Significant training and development opportunities (we invest in our staff)
• Social hours – typically 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday with no weekend working.
• We promote a healthy work-life balance and operate a hybrid working week – typically 3 days each week working from a hospital, community setting, or conducting home visits, and 2 days working from home
• Full or part time opportunities available (minimum 4 days per week)
• As a team our values of Togetherness, Responsibility, Excellence and Caring underpin how we look after each other and our patients 
• Regular supportive line management and supervision

A comprehensive CPD and reflective practice program

This role is offered on a permanent basis, but we would also consider offering it on a secondment basis if this is something you would prefer.

In this role you’ll help us ensure women who are pregnant and booked for delivery, and/or have infants under 24 months, receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs, and that these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.

Using your initiative and knowledge you’ll liaise with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.

On a day to day basis you’ll effectively manage a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in children’s centres, joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals and care planning meetings.

Another part of this role will be the provision of on-going training, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.

As a team we cover three boroughs, Ealing, Hounslow, H&F. The service has operational bases at St Bernard’s Hospital site (Ealing PMHS), Lakeside Mental Health Unit (Hounslow PMHS), and Hammersmith Hospital (H&F PMHS), and work in community settings.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.

Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ 4,500 staff, of whom 56% are BME. Our turnover for 2023-24 is £426m.

The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.

The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

This advert closes on Wednesday 6 Mar 2024

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