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About
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) is one of the largest trusts in the UK, caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs. We have approximately 7,000 staff who provide healthcare to a third of London's population and across wider geographical areas, including Milton Keynes, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire.
As a Foundation Trust we involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run and our future development. If you are interested in becoming a member of our Foundation Trust please visit: www.cnwl.nhs.uk
(source: Central and North West London NHS Foundation NHS Trust website)
Perinatal Mental Health Nurse
Closed for applications on: 13-Dec-2022 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 13-Dec-2022 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Mental Health Unit, Northwick Park Hospital
- Address
- Watford Road
- Town
- Harrow
- Postcode
- HA1 3UJ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,836 - £52,849 Per annum inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
Job overview
We are increasing access to services for women in the perinatal period across the community perinatal services, hence the opportunity has arisen for a suitable qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), to apply for a permanent 1 wte Band 7 Community Perinatal Mental Health Nurse post, within the Brent and Harrow Perinatal Mental Health Team.
This position is open to an applicant with extensive post registration experience, due to the nature of the specialist knowledge and skills required in this area of mental health nursing.
The Team provides a Monday-Friday, 9.00am-5.00pm service. The successful applicant would be expected to have the flexibility to work occasional extended opening hours to facilitate early or late clinic appointments, home visits or training.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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The team works closely with the local Maternity Services as well as the local community and inpatient mental health services, primary care services, social services and a wide range of other statutory and non-statutory organisations.
The applicant must have excellent clinical skills, be able to demonstrate an ability to complete comprehensive mental state assessment, thoroughly assess risk, formulate safe and effective risk management plans and document and communicate these clearly and concisely.
Working for our organisation
CNWL has established a high-quality multidisciplinary community and liaison perinatal mental health service across five London Boroughs,
CNWL Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) comprises specialist multidisciplinary perinatal mental health teams five boroughs served by the trust (Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster) enabling the delivery of evidence based perinatal mental health care through a coordinated multidisciplinary specialist approach across maternity, primary and secondary care, tertiary specialist services, social care and voluntary sector.
You will join a team that delivers specialist community perinatal mental health service (PMHS), which integrate maternity services, community and primary care services. We respond rapidly to presentations within the maternity context and address the risks to both mothers and infants of perinatal illness We focus on prevention, early detection with NICE guidelines and based in the community, close to mothers and babies.
The successful candidates will be highly motivated, energetic and passionate about delivering high quality care to patients acute and chronic psychiatric conditions in perinatal service, ensuring that assessment and interventions are provided in a sensitive, accessible and culturally appropriate way.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To deliver a highly specialist evidence-based mental health assessment, formulation of diagnosis ,care planning, treatment and review for women in the perinatal period .
- To provide specialist evidence based interventions such as CBT ,VIPP , VIG, to women in the perinatal period , to the parent infant dyad or the family system.
- To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to both CNWL, local Maternity Hospital in-patient and community services on best practice when working with women with mental health needs; at preconception, pregnant women and women with infants up to one year old.
- To work jointly with care coordinators from CMHTs with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to one year old.
- To work in consultation with other professionals making known concerns regarding safeguarding children and/or adults to the appropriate and responsible service. This includes attending Child Protection and Review Conferences as appropriate where the child is at risk because of the mother’s mental illness.
- To work with colleagues to establish a clear process and criteria for receiving referrals to undertake direct work or information for advice and liaison work.
- To assist in setting up structures that allow the dissemination of knowledge and skills regarding working with perinatal women in both in-patient and community services.
- To liaise and work with specialist tertiary services such as Mother & Baby Units, personality disorder services, eating disorder services etc.
- To work with fathers, partners and significant others to provide appropriate education training and support.
- To identify carers and refer/sign post for assessment as appropriate.
- To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
- To seek consultation where necessary with clinical supervisor and/or line manager on clinical work and participate in regular supervision.
- To be mindful of the needs of women and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
- To ensure that all Trust Perinatal service users have a perinatal care plan, which is implemented. This requires attending and contributing to pre and post-birth meetings.
- To work with other professionals in supporting them to implement an agreed parent –infant care plan.
- To attend the CNWL Safeguarding Children multidisciplinary meetings and any other relevant multidisciplinary meetings within Maternity services, as appropriate.
- To be responsible for monitoring, recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. patient’s, families and carers, other professionals) orally and in writing.
- To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
- The postholder will work autonomously as a specialist perinatal practitioner managing antenatal clinics and post natal clinics in community settings.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. See attached Staff Reward and Wellbeing Handbook detailing our benefits, discounts and wellbeing initiatives for staff.
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN qualification and evidence of current registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Mentorship in practice/ENB 998 or equivalent (or willingness to complete
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Dual qualified as RGN or midwife
- Specialist Training in perinatal & infant mental health
- Recently experience of perinatal mental health practice and/or safeguarding children practice
- Qualifications / training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
Experience
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree /diploma
- Substantial post qualification experience
- Relevant post qualification experience working with women with serious mental illness
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- Evidence of networking within the Perinatal Psychiatry Specialty
- Experience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
- Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
- Experience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options.
- Team/self management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multidisciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice
- Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- Ability to work effectively with women from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and with families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and ‘virtual’ team
Desirable criteria
- Computer literate to an intermediate/ advanced level
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
- Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
- Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
- Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. MHA, MCA
Desirable criteria
- Experience of conducting clinical audits
Personal
Essential criteria
- Calm and professional in manner
- Able to exercise initiative, flexibility and tact
- Ability to work under pressure and remain calm particularly in unpredictable situations where there may be exposure to highly distressed patients who may exhibit challenging behaviour
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to accept constructive criticism.
- Self-motivated with the ability to think laterally to problem solve.
- Willing to engage in and use peer and group supervision creativity.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Krupali Avlani
- Job title
- Perinatal Mental Health Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07957187551
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