About the role
Salary: £40559.00 to £48841.00
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM / SECONDMENT FOR 12 MONTHS DUE TO MATERNITY COVER
The Perinatal Mental Health (PNMH) Practitioner will work clinically and collaboratively alongside key professionals to oversee and ensure specialist clinical assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of clinical care in the community for women with PNMH services and their families. Influential in promoting perinatal mental health wellbeing, demonstrating enhanced competence in complex, clinical assessment, decision making, and the management of clinical needs in the perinatal period. There will be times when decision making will require timely and responsive intervention to manage risk.
Develop and provide specialist clinical Perinatal pathways in secondary care mental health, in line with national and local agendas.Oversee current clinical pathways in Local Primary Mental Health Support Services and partner agencies to ensure seamless access to care and treatment. Ensure that demand is met by the most appropriately skilled Clinical Practitioners and to ensure that pathways of care are seamless and according to patient need.Promote a culture based on principles of recovery, choice, and personalised care, in which the mothers and key supports, where agreed, are actively involved in decision-making about their care and treatment. Work in an effective partnership with, the Specialist Perinatal Team Lead, the Consultant Psychiatrists, Psychological Therapies and Midwifery, Children andfamily services thus providing a strong multi-disciplinary leadership model. Carry an individual PNMH caseload of complex clinical need and clinical risk.