Whittington Health
Clinical Lead Health Visitor: Perinatal Mental Health
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Bright Start Islington Integrated Service Health Visitor Clinical Lead Vacancy
About the Role
Our Bright Start Islington Integrated Service has a Health Visitor Clinical Lead Vacancy for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health.
This exciting post involves working as a senior Health Visitor in one of our integrated teams. As well as working as a Clinical Lead Health Visitor approximately twice a month focusing on aspects of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health. This role is a fantastic development opportunity which will enable you to get involved to shape and deliver on the family hub best start in life local plan.
Responsibilities
- Support 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.
- Support 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.
- Support the Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationship workstream as part of the Best Start in Life Family Hubs programme.
- Demonstrate a commitment to best practice in all aspects of child development and work with Bright Start Early Years Teams and other partners to embed the best practice in Islington, and Whittington Health as a whole.
- Demonstrate and develop evidence-based knowledge, attitudes, and skills to be an expert resource for Bright Start teams, in particular in the area of Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationships.
- 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 Mental Health.
- Work with other specialist colleagues such as the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team, Parent and Baby Psychology Service, and Early Years to develop integrated protocols which support the Perinatal Mental Health Strategy.
- Provide expertise and support to Family Health Advisors and Health Visitors working with families.
- Take a lead role in working with the Islington Family Hubs Perinatal Mental Health and Parent and Infant Relationship support action plan which includes reviewing the PNMH Pathway and on evidencing outcomes from PNMH interventions.
- Work to develop integrated pathways with key partners such as midwifery, CAMHS, Early Years settings, and School Health Service.
- Be responsible for the delivery of Healthy Child programme within the Bright Start area.
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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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
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Name: Pooja Shah
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Job title: Locality Manager - Bright Start Central
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Email address: Pooja.shah2@nhs.net
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Telephone number: 07785954454
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Name: Emily Baldwin
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Job title: Specialist Health Visitor for Transition to Parenthood
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Telephone number: 07825976842
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Email address: Emily.baldwin22@nhs.net
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Name: Tayyiba Cousins
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Job title: Team Leader for Highbury Grange Health Visiting Team
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Email address: t.cousins@nhs.net
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