Community Perinatal Mental Health NurseinStaffordinStaffordPUBLISHED THU 20 MAR 2025
We offer extensive training opportunities, continuous professional development, and a supportive multidisciplinary approach, ensuring you excel in your role while enhancing your career progression. You will manage a diverse caseload, utilising evidence-based practice to deliver tailored care, engage in reflective practice, and work closely with various health services to promote the well-being of mothers and their babies. If you’re ready to take on this inspiring challenge and be part of a service committed to excellence, we encourage you to apply today!
Following further investment we are looking to recruit enthusiastic, passionate and motivated Community Mental Health Nurses to join our Perinatal Mental Health Team . We are a specialist service that strives to deliver excellent standards of care to expectant and new mothers with severe and complex mental health problems.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the perinatal service and to help shape the future of perinatal mental health care in Staffordshire. You will be joining a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary team with extensive training opportunities along with regular supervision, reflective practice and opportunity for career progression.
As a member of the team you would provide specialist assessments and interventions to women and families during pregnancy, delivery and up to 12 months postpartum. You will continue to develop upon our strong links with Midwifery, Health Visiting, Maternal Mental Health Service, Family Nurse Partnership, Adult Mental Health, IAPT, CAMHS services and voluntary sectors.
We have adapted to new ways of working due to pandemic, and some of the blended working developments will continue as clinically indicated. The team works closely with the Brockington Parent and Baby Unit in Stafford, The Lotus Service and with the Shropshire Community Perinatal Mental Health Team.
- Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload, which includes, specialist assessment, care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans.
- Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
- Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
- Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and pathway guidance including; pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions.
- Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans. Deliver and promote positive risk taking, where appropriate, to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence.
- Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient condition
- Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process.
- Maintain an up-to-date level of professional competence within the specific environment.
- Assist in the implementation of evidence-based practice and participate in research and other projects as required.
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