# Band 7 Senior Perinatal Nurse Specialist

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Southall
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

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:

- Hammersmith and Fulham: 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.

The service operates across three boroughs, with bases at Trust Headquarters, Ealing; Hounslow House; and Hammersmith Hospital.

The team works flexibly across community mental health services, maternity units, children's centres and service users' homes, with opportunities for remote working.

**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.

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications and training:

- oRMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent (AF)

- Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice (AF)

- ENB 998 or equivalent practice / placement educator course (AF)

- Experience:

- Experience of managing complex safeguarding concerns, pre-birth assessments and multi-agency planning (AF/I)

- Experience of working under relevant mental health and safeguarding legislation including the Care Act, Children Act and Mental Health Act (AF/I)

- Significant post-qualification experience within mental health services, including community, secondary care, perinatal or specialist services (AF / I)

- Skills:

- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options

- Ability to undertake comprehensive psychosocial, mental health and risk assessments and formulate effective care plans (I)

- Ability to balance therapeutic engagement with safeguarding responsibilities and risk management (I)

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## Skills

### Required
- perinatal mental health
- safeguarding children
- mental health assessment
- care planning
- training and supervision

### Nice to have
- dual qualified as RGN, Midwife or Health Visitor
- specialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health
- clinical supervision training
- qualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions

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