Clinical Specialist Nurse/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced mental health nurse, social worker or occupational therapist to join our perinatal community mental health service. The Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) is a multi-disciplinary community mental health service for pregnant and postnatal women and birthing people with mental illness. The aim of the team is to detect, prevent and treat perinatal mental health problems to improve the experiences of pregnancy and the two years postpartum for service users and their families. In their role the postholder will also need to hold in mind the parent-infant relationship and how it can be impacted by mental ill-health and consider the experiences of the mother/birthing parent, child and partner when developing care plans.

Staff work closely with the five maternity sites in North Central London. Clinics run at maternity sites, children's centres and community centres across the boroughs as well as home visits.

The model consists of an Administrative Hub and operates with 3 clinical sub-teams;

-East team (Enfield & Haringey)

-South team (Camden & Islington)

-West team (Barnet)

This role is based in the Barnet team. The postholder will work in N12 9RH.

SPMHS also runs a separate service called Maple which supports women and birthing people who've experienced perinatal loss and birth trauma. Colleagues in the community perinatal mental health team and Maple work closely together but the services are distinct from each other.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be supported and supervised by the band 7 senior perinatal clinicians in the Perinatal Service to carry out a high number of comprehensive new patient assessments and manage a caseload of patients in line with the requirements of the service operational policy and service strategy. The postholder will work to provide safe, evidence based, effective, culturally competent care is delivered in a timely manner to service users.

In carrying out this role the postholder will make best use of the resources available to them; ensuring that at all times best use is made of health and social care resources to assist recovery and re-enablement.

The post holder will support governance and audit within the team, ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users.

This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The job holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Operational Service Manager, which are appropriate to the grade.

About us

We are the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) providing high-quality mental health care to local people across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.

Previously two mental health trusts working in Partnership - Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust - we formally merged and became the new NLFT on Friday 1 November.

NLFT is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services.Our Five-Year Strategy:
-We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
-With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
-We will offergreat placesto work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
-We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see job description and person specification attached to this advert for detailed description about this role. Alternatively contact the Team Manager(s)whose contact details are listed below.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential
-Diploma or degree leading to professional Registered qualification in Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work
-Current registration with relevant professional body
-Evidence of recent and or on-going post registration academic study relevant to practice

Desirable
-CBT qualification or other relevant qualification i.e., solution focused therapy, cognitive stimulation therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy etc.

Experience

Essential
-Clinical experience with clients suffering from mental health conditions across a range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient, and inpatient settings
-Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
-Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
-Demonstrable understanding and experience of utilising a variety of assessment tools as well as service specialist tools currently used in practice in relation to assessing / planning care needs and determining risk

Desirable
-Post-qualification experience working with women in the perinatal period with severe and enduring mental health needs as well as their families, carers and networks

Skills and Abilities

Essential
-Skills in the use of a range of methods of assessment, intervention and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health services.
-Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
-Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.

Knowledge

Essential
-Practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
-Demonstrate a clear understanding of their own role and that of others within the multi-professional team