Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Perinatal Infant Mental Health Lead Health Visitor
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Eligibility
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.
About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Kent Health Visiting Service as a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) Lead Health Visitor.
The Lead Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Health Visiting Service’s Perinatal and Infant Mental Health offer, as well as its Parent-Infant Relationship (PIR) priorities. The post holder will work across the West Kent localities of Tonbridge and Malling, Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone, providing expert clinical leadership to Health Visiting teams and wider multi-disciplinary colleagues in relation to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and Parent-Infant Relationships.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring that women, infants and families receive high-quality, evidence-based support during the perinatal period.
- Collaborating with internal and external partners to develop and implement comprehensive multi-disciplinary care pathways, policies and procedures that effectively address perinatal mental health needs and promote positive parent-infant relationships.
- Working as part of the local health visiting team to support the wider delivery of the health visiting service, provide relevant training pertaining to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, Parent Infant Relationship, Emotional Well-being and Birth Trauma.
- Developing and maintaining effective multi-disciplinary care pathways and collaborative working practices.
- Providing support and guidance to practitioners with an emphasis on prevention and early identification of mental health difficulties.
- Building/strengthening partnership and fostering positive relationships between parents and their infants through the development of training packages, and programmes aligned with national and local policies and procedures.
- Co-facilitating group interventions, and supporting the delivery of the Institute of Health Visiting’s Emotional Wellbeing Visits intervention and ensuring that practice is evidence-based.
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About You
This role presents an excellent opportunity for a motivated and experienced Health Visitor with a passion for perinatal and infant mental health to influence service development, improve outcomes for families, and provide leadership across the West Kent locality.
Organisation
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Vita MartinAchong
Job title: Programme Manager and Strategic Lead
Email address: vmartin-achong@nhs.net
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