Band 7 Senior Perinatal Nurse Specialist

The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) is seeking enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 Nurses and/or Social Workers to join its specialist multidisciplinary team.

We have two 0.8 WTE vacancies available:

• Ealing: 12-month fixed-term/secondment opportunity, immediate start.
• Hounslow: 12-month fixed-term/secondment opportunity, starting February 2027.

Both posts provide maternity leave and secondment cover.

Successful candidates will support women, babies and families experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period.

Main duties of the job

• Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twelve months receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
• Actively liaising 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.
• Efficiently managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate to complex mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children's centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings.
• Providing on-going training, supervision, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.
• Participating on rotation in the service daily Duty rota, to support the triage of new referrals and urgent / emergency presentations in the maternity units.
• Supervising and mentoring students in the service.

Benefits

• Competitive salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year
• Agenda for Change pay scheme

Person Specification

• Qualifications and training:
• Essential: oRMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent (AF)
• Desirable: Educated to degree level or equivalent (AF)
• Experience:
• Essential: Experience of managing complex safeguarding concerns, pre-birth assessments and multi-agency planning (AF/I)
• Desirable: Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
• Skills:
• Essential: Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options
• Desirable: Computer literate to an intermediate level