Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner
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Job Opportunity: Perinatal Practitioner
Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better? To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners. Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.
About the Role
We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.
We are looking for a Perinatal Practitioner (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the NW Team based at Unither House in Chertsey.
Responsibilities:
- Be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload.
- Mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.
- Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, under the supervision of the Clinical Lead Nurse.
- Ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service.
- Ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU.
- Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of women with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community perinatal mental health nursing perspective and expertise.
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About the Organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
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About the Location
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Important Notes
- Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
- Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.
How to Apply
We look forward to receiving your application!
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Vimbai Matemba
- Job title: Perinatal Service Manager
- Email address: vimbai.matemba@sabp.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07768926932
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