Clinical Nurse Specialist

Join our dedicated Perinatal Mental Health Team as a Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist, supporting women and families during pregnancy and up to two years after birth. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to deliver specialist assessments, care planning and interventions for individuals with complex mental health needs, while working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team and in partnership with maternity services and safeguarding partners. You'll play a key role in improving outcomes for mothers and babies through compassionate, evidence-based practice, service development, and staff training. If you are an experienced mental health nurse with a passion for perinatal care and making a real difference in your community, we would love to hear from you., To deliver highly specialist evidence based assessment, care planning, treatment and review for service users in the perinatal period.

To provide specialist consultation, advice and support to inpatient and community services on best practice when working with pregnant women and women with infants up to two years old.

To work intensively with a small complex and challenging caseload of pregnant women or those with an infant up to two years old. To liaise and work with the Trust Mother and Baby Unit.To work as a member of the MDT exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of dangerousness, self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, domestic violence and safeguarding children.

To be mindful of the needs of women, children, young people, families and individuals from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop, with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.To ensure that all service users have a perinatal plan, which may require pre-birth and post-birth meetings.

To attend Safeguarding Children meetings as appropriate and provide written and verbal reports.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.