Senior Perinatal Practitioner (Social Worker)

Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better?

To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners.

Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

We are looking for Senior Perinatal Practitioner (Social Worker) to cover Trust wide Perinatal Service which consists of 3 teams (Northwest in Chertsey, Southwest in Godalming and East in Epsom).

You'll be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload, primarily in the East Team. You'll mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

Main duties of the job

Identify and provide advice/initial assessment of women where a referral to children and families social services may be appropriate.

Act as liaison/interface between perinatal mental health/maternity services and Children and Families Social Services department.

Facilitate access to relevant information, such as previous history with Children and Family Social Services/lead on MASH or MARAC referrals/cases.

Implement and provide necessary interventions to improve a woman's level of functioning and to promote the safety and wellbeing of the infant.

To provide consultation and support to staff within the perinatal mental health team around child safeguarding and child protection matters including domestic abuse, substance use and impact of family system on mental health.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.