Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Perinatal Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job Description
To work as an autonomous Perinatal Community Nurse with a defined caseload. Ensuring the on-going assessment of adults within the service and providing a range of needs-led interventions and care.
To work in consultation with other professionals making known concerns regarding safeguarding children and safeguarding adults to the appropriate and responsible services.
To aid the identification and treatment for the mental health needs of pregnant women and those with infants up to one year old.
To work in collaboration with both colleagues from generic psychiatric services and staff from other perinatal services.
To provide written information for all perinatal referrals received into the team to the referrers.
To provide a consultation and liaison service for other health care professionals including those outside of the Trust who are working with women who are pregnant or have infants up to a year old.
You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or CAMHS. You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from 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 in 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 city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.
Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within the Trust and also London wide. In addition, 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.