Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse
Tower Hamlets Council, Chingford Hatch, Waltham Forest
Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse
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Tower Hamlets Council, Chingford Hatch, Waltham Forest
- Full time
- Temporary
- Remote working
Posted 1 week ago, 16 Oct | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 03c2370deadd45ae8caaca6a3018d4f7
Location ref: Chingford Hatch, Waltham Forest
Full Job Description
- Provides assessment and care, undertaking delegated duties and activities with limited or indirect supervision.
- Promotes engagement with community resources, including Family Hubs, by offering tailored support with accessing community services.
- Works directly with clients to deliver specific interventions to promote attuned parent/infant relationships.
- Provides assessment of child health and development using ASQ tools in combination with direct observation and professional judgement.
- Works directly with clients offering tailored advice and support for a range of child development needs.
- To assist with delivery of therapeutic groups under the guidance of the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapist., Key result areas
- Provide practical and therapeutic support to strengthen early attachment, observing parent-infant interactions and escalating concerns appropriately.
- Implement structured programmes (e.g., infant development guidance, parenting support, emotional wellbeing strategies) under the supervision of specialist clinicians.
- Offer tailored guidance on infant care, routines, and development while supporting parents experiencing perinatal mental health challenges.
- Work collaboratively with midwives, health visitors, mental health teams, and social care to ensure joined-up support and safe, consistent care pathways.
- Maintain accurate records, monitor progress, and contribute to risk assessments by sharing observations with the wider clinical team. Main duties and responsibilities
- Provide interventions that strengthen the developing parent-infant relationship and promote healthy attachment.
- Provide one-to-one support to parent/caregivers, including emotional well-being visits, practical guidance, and low-intensity interventions as directed by the multidisciplinary team.
- To support Parents in the general management of baby care, demonstrating an understanding of how this may be hindered by the presence of mental illness
- To work in collaborate with other professionals to deliver coordinated, evidence-based care for parents with mild - moderate perinatal mental illness.
- Ensure the infants needs are identified, promoted, and met within the agreed care plan, including monitoring feeding, routines, development and general wellbeing.
- Developing working and therapeutic relationships with women and their families and communicate effectively with them and the networks surrounding them.
- Assist in planning and delivering group programmes for parents who are experiencing mild -moderate mental health needs
- Keep clear, contemporaneous electronic records of assessments, interventions, and observations in line with service and safeguarding requirements.
Ability to implement personal centred care/action plan in partnership with child, parent and family., NNEB or Diploma in Childcare & Education (CDE) awarded by CACHE or NHC in Childcare & Education (Scotland)/Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Early Years (DEXCEL)., Experience in working with children and families in a community setting and working with safeguarding children's concerns, Ability to deliver interventions to support the child and family through the perinatal period.
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system. Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/ The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services. Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/ The key priorities for the Care Group are: Innovation and support for primary care Being a great place to work Integrating primary and community care Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Direct job link
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