Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Perinatal Occupational Therapist Care Coordinator
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Occupational Therapist Care Coordinator – Community Perinatal Mental Health Team
Full time – 37.5 hours
Permanent post
Specialist Mother & Baby Mental Health Service (SMABS) is a community perinatal mental health service commissioned with the Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT). We cover the catchment area of Bradford, Airedale and Craven there are approximately 8,000 live births per year. The main maternity hospital sites being Bradford (6,000 births) and Airedale (2,000 births).
We are currently looking to recruit an experienced and highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health professional/practitioner to join our team with a specialist interest in improving care for women & their families in the area. Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable; a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.
Key Dates
- Closing: 9th August 2026
- Shortlisting: 12th August 2026
- Interview: TBC
Role Overview
To be part of SMABS team and provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions to women experiencing perinatal mental health ill health across Bradford & Airedale & Craven, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
- To work within the specialist multi disciplinary team and network and contribute to all elements of service delivery.
- Assess the impact of a parent’s mental ill-health on baby and older siblings within the individual household, notifying relevant agencies of concerns if appropriate.
- To work in a sensitive and attuned way with women, infants, partners and wider families that enable containment during highly emotive transition period in parental lives; to delicately balance the needs and wellbeing of the women whilst simultaneously ensuring infant health, wellbeing and safety is paramount and centred in all care delivery.
- Work in a recovery and inclusive way to support women, infants, and families to achieve good mental health outcomes within the perinatal period.
- To create robust risk management plans in line with the organisational and local policy/guidelines and CPA framework.
- The Perinatal community mental health clinician/care co-ordinator will attend, participate and in some cases lead clinical/patient related meetings such as professionals meetings, CPA, and MDT.
- To support the supervision of the MDT.
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Core Values
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
- We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
- We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
- We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
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Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
- Increase mileage rates for > 3500
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
- Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
Application Information
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Andrea O'Malley
- Job title: Team Leader
- Email address: Andrea.O'Malley@bdct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07525884994
Team Leader Minna Ylatalo - contact number 07860528417.
Email - Minna.Ylatalo@bdct.nhs.uk
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