Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Perinatal Practitioner
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Fixed term until 31st March 2027
We are recruiting a Champion with a compassionate and a transformative approach to perinatal mental health across the 0–19 Public Health Family Health Service, ensuring women, babies, and families receive the support they need to thrive. To drive the early recognition of attachment and parent–infant relationship challenges, helping families access the right specialist support at the right time.
- To build strong partnerships with IAPT services, health visitors, and multi-agency colleagues to create seamless pathways that enhance outcomes for families.
- To inspire confidence and capability across the workforce through expert consultation, reflective supervision, and engaging training in perinatal mental health.
Closing Date
- 5th October 2026
Shortlisting Date
- 6th October 2026
Interview Date
- TBC
Collaboration
In collaboration with SMABS and IAPT
Responsibilities
- Support health visiting teams to access appropriate care pathways
- Support use of the Ready to Relate intervention implementation with health visiting teams
- To train the 0-5 workforce in early recognition and basic interventions related to suboptimal perinatal mental health
- Support the training of health visiting teams to embrace new ways of working using digital platforms
- To develop and provide a consultation model to support health visiting teams in their perinatal mental health work.
- Identify what prevalence data is required to be collated
- Support the health visiting teams to collect prevalence data and evidence impact
- To develop the interface between health visiting services, IAPT and SMABS.
- To engage with the Perinatal mental health steering group to identify opportunities for development across the district.
- Contribute to teaching and training on issues related to perinatal mental health, parent-infant relationship, within 0-19 services.
- Development work; stakeholder engagement; integration to a multidisciplinary team; leadership of quality improvement and best practice.
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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
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 > 4500
- A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
- A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
- Plus many more.
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We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
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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.
Note
- Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sharon Morris
- Job title: Clinical Manager
- Email address: sharon.morris@bdct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07764 926189
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