Occupational Therapist or Social Worker

The Community Perinatal Team is an accredited, thriving, supportive and well-regarded specialist multi-disciplinary team covering the whole of Hertfordshire. The team comprises of Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Parent-Infant Psychologists, Family Therapists, Peer Support workers, Nursery Nurses and team administrators.
You will join the established team as an experienced Community Psychiatric Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker and will work across our Care Coordination and Initial Assessment team delivering timely, accessible services to women and families through a community-based model of perinatal mental health care.
You will ensure, in collaboration with other clinical colleagues, that professional practice meets standards as set by statute, regulatory and other professional bodies and HPFT.
We have a team base in Watford but work in a remote and agile way across the county., + To work as an autonomous practitioner within the Community Perinatal Team, carrying a caseload of women with moderate to severe mental health needs during pregnancy and the postnatal period, providing specialist perinatal mental health assessment, care planning and ongoing intervention.
+ To work collaboratively with maternity services, health visiting, primary care, adult mental health services, children's services and other partner agencies, contributing to joint working, information sharing and safeguarding processes where required.
+ To practice in accordance with professional codes of conduct, Trust policies and perinatal service protocols, maintaining up-to-date clinical knowledge and skills through supervision, training and reflective practice., + To carry out telephone triage screening assessments, routine initial assessments and respond to urgent referrals carrying out comprehensive assessments where clinically indicated.
+ To provide brief follow-up interventions whilst awaiting allocation to another member of the team's caseload
+ To contribute to the team's duty system on a rota basis.
+ To plan, organise and prioritise resources and tasks on a daily basis to meet service and organisational needs.
+ To ensure a consistent and timely response to safeguarding cases in line with Trust procedures.
+ To take a leading role in the day to day running of the service, supporting the Team Leader.
+ To work in conjunction with and alongside colleagues and partners within the organisation.
+ To plan and deliver treatment interventions in line with best practice and local and national Guidelines.To take a leading role in designated projects/service development as allocated.
+ To support the Team Leader in the effective and timely management of complaints and serious untoward incidents.
+ To plan, develop and deliver training to others as needed.
+ To work collaboratively with colleagues in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care to improve existing service provision within the Trust thus enabling the effective management of care within the community, avoiding in-patient admissions whenever possible, HPFT is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and in order to reflect the diversity of its population, positively encourages applications from all areas of the community. We aim to be a representative organisation with regards to age, disability, ethnicity, gender, beliefs and sexual orientation and are fully committed to equality, diversity and human rights and encourage applications from all sections of the community including users of mental health services.
The Trust is committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcomes applications from candidates wishing to work part-time or under flexible working arrangements.
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We are one of the leading Mental Health and Learning Disability Trusts in the UK and rated "outstanding" by the CQC since 2019. The specialist Community Perinatal Team (CPT) was launched in April 2017, to expand our provision of mental health care and services for women with moderate to severe mental illnesses throughout Hertfordshire., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional., Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and
professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.
If you would like to join a team to be proud of and you share our values and passion for great care and outcomes for our service users and carers, we would love to hear from you.