South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Worker
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Job Description: Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Worker
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic, clinically confident Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Worker to join Lewisham Community Perinatal Team. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women with moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.
You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.
You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice for women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner London Borough and have understanding of the opportunities and challenges this brings.
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Working closely with colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London-wide. You will be part of the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise junior staff, student nurses as well as implementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.
Service and Team Responsibilities
Clinical – Individual
- Undertake all duties in line with the professional Codes of Professional Conduct, and maintain professional registration requirements for the post according to discipline/profession.
- Manage your own caseload and work within a team but will have freedom to act within the service framework and Trust operational policies.
- Participate and lead in joint complex assessments with other disciplines and other agencies and provide reports for referrers, families and other agencies as required.
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The Lewisham Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Borough of Southwark and Lambeth offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.
You will be based at the Old Townhall in Lewisham.
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.
For Further Details / Informal Visits
- Name: Katie Murray
- Job Title: Team Lead
- Email Address: Katie.Murray@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 02032285398
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