Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse - Milton Keynes - ref. c80465115
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Fixed Term post to cover Maternity leave for a Perinatal Community Nursery Nurse in the Milton Keynes Perinatal Mental Health Service from January 2025 to January 2026.
Milton Keynes Perinatal Mental Health Service is part of the wider Perinatal Mental Health Services for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes STP. We are an energetic, creative and welcoming service which aims to offer and inspire excellence in community perinatal mental health care.The post-holder will join the existing multi-disciplinary team which comprises of a Perinatal Psychiatrist, High Intensity Psychological Therapist, Specialist CPN’s, Perinatal Occupational Therapist and Team Administrators.
Perinatal Community Mental Health Services provide specialist care for women (and their babies) with moderate to severe mental illness. The service offers pre-conceptual counselling alongside working with women during their pregnancy and up to 2 years after birth.The role will involve working as a nursery nurse within the local community supporting mums experiencing moderate to severe difficulties with their emotional wellbeing during the perinatal period. You will work alongside families, carers and other health professionals to provide high quality care.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering care to women in a range of settings including the woman’s home, children’s centres and other community settings. There will also be opportunity where appropriate to deliver interventions using video calls e.g. Zoom. The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary teams is therefore essential.As a perinatal community nursery nurse you will assist mothers with perinatal mental health conditions to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.
The perinatal community nursery nurse will also work closely with the specialist occupational therapist in delivering group work e.g. Buggy Walks, Stay Play and Soothe and other groups to meet the service user needs.
You must hold a relevant qualification e.g. BTEC level 3 Diploma in Early Years, NVQ/SNVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education, NNEB or equivalent qualification. Experience of working with women in the perinatal period is essential alongside experience of working in a community setting including an awareness of working with women from a multi-cultural and diverse community.
There may be opportunities for further training via local and regional delivered training programmes dependent on training availability.
Working for our organisation
We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will work as a member of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service, to provide a service to women experiencing moderate to severe perinatal mental health conditions and their families as delegated by the perinatal clinicians/Service Lead, and will participate in the delivery of interventions under the direction of the perinatal mental health clinicians.
The majority of interventions are delivered in a community setting most often in the woman’s home however the post holder will be expected to work in various community settings including the wider community and assist the team in supporting women being admitted to or discharged from inpatient Mother and Baby Units.
To assist the multi-disciplinary team in meeting the needs of children and their families by undertaking delegated duties that support and enable family centred care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- • Qualification in BTEC level 3 Diploma in Early Years OR
- CACHE Diploma in Child Care and Education, Level 3 (2 year course) OR
- NVQ/SNVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education OR
- NNEB Diploma
- • Up to date with current child care practice as recommended by the Department of Health
- • Early Years Degree
- • Video Interactive Guidance (VIG)
Experience
Essential criteria- • Experience of working with women during the perinatal period
- • Experience of risk assessment and management
- • Experience of working as part of a team
- • Experience in working with families, other professionals particularly to safeguarding issues
- • Previous experience working within a hospital/play specialist/health provider setting
- • Experience of attachment interventions
- • Experience in Video Interactive Guidance
- • Awareness of working in a multi-cultural and diverse community
Knowledge
Essential criteria- • Ability to cope with workload pressure/prioritise workload
- • Ability to work independently
- • IT skills
- • Demonstrates an understanding of how mental health issues can affect people
- • Ability to take direction and to follow detailed policies and protocols
- • Advising and developing care plans for families
- • Experience of delivering groups
Qualities
Essential criteria- • Ability to work effectively and flexibly as an integral member of the team
- • Good communitcation and liaison skills
- • Well organised with good administration skills
- • Empathy/engagement skills with the client group
- • Flexible and adaptable to change
- • Awareness of the Health Child Programme
- • Awareness of the Baby Friendly Initiative
Other
Essential criteria- Car owner/driver with valid UK driving licence
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. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
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