Specialist Neonatal Counsellor

Job overview

The Newborn Services at MFT provides specialist care for premature and critically ill babies across three sites including St Mary’s, Wythenshawe and North Manchester General Hospitals. This post will be based across all three sites. We have an excellent reputation for the delivery of high-quality nursing and medical care, education and research. We are committed to continually improving the quality of the services we provide to our patients.

The NICU is a busy intensive care environment the work is challenging both professionally and personally, but the satisfaction of making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the infants and families is significant. We are passionate about maintaining our high quality care and would like to recruit a highly committed, dynamic, motivated and experienced counsellor to join our team.

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You will need to be passionate about the role and willing to work effectively as part of a large team. You need to have excellent organisation skills. You will work closely with your team members to provide support and advice.

You will work as part of the NICU psychological support service. You will be responsible for balancing clinical, teaching/training, liaison and administrative aspects of the NICU psychological support service. You must demonstrate a commitment to providing crisis psychological interventions for mothers/fathers/siblings on a range of complex and sensitive issues.

This support will encompass both bereavement issues (e.g., end of life care, surviving twins/triplets) and non-bereavement issues (e.g., receiving difficult news, poor prognoses and stresses associated with neonatal intensive care. You will be required to provide psychological support to nursing and medical staff in order to promote a supportive atmosphere in a stressful environment.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.