Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner
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Cheshire and Mersey Perinatal Mental Health Service
The Cheshire and Mersey Perinatal Mental Health Service has grown at a significant rate following a successful bid for Long Term Plan funding, allowing us to support an increasing number of women, partners, and families within the perinatal period.
About the Role
We are seeking a practitioner who are passionate about providing excellent care to women and families within the perinatal period and seeking to reduce health inequalities.
We utilise a flexible approach to the delivery of clinical care to best suit the need of mother and infant.
We are looking to recruit practitioners from a variety of backgrounds including Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMN) and/or Social Work.
Specialist training opportunities will be available as part of this role.
Requirements
- Minimum of two years post registration experience.
- Ability to travel across a large geographical area.
Responsibilities
- The role will primarily cover the Sefton locality, there may also be the need to cross cover Liverpool locality too.
- The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective prioritisation and provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women.
- The Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner provides specialist assessment, risk management, act as lead professional and deliver therapeutic interventions to women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period.
- Working within a multidisciplinary team, the practitioner promotes recovery, enhances maternal wellbeing, supports positive parent-infant relationships, safeguards vulnerable families and contributes to the delivery of high-quality, person-centred perinatal mental health services.
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About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible Working
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Samantha Evans/Cheryl Finnigan
- Job title: Team Managers
- Email address: samantha.evans@mersyecare.nhs.uk / cheryl.finnigan@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 702 4012
- Email: Samantha.evans@merseycare.nhs.uk
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