Specialty Doctor in Perinatal Mental Health Service

1 month ago

Pontypool, United Kingdom Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Full time

The Perinatal Mental Health Team supports women with severe or complex mental health problems in the perinatal period. The team accepts referrals in pregnancy from 12 weeks gestation up to six months post-natal and provides follow-up to one year post-natal. It is possible that in the future, the referrals up to one year may be accepted and follow-up extended to the two year post-natal and involve more work with the family as a whole and greater consideration of infant mental health. The team works closely with the maternity services and health visiting and also is part of the Managed Clinical Network of Perinatal Mental Health Services across Wales. The perinatal mental health service has developed strong working relationships between the different professions and the multi-disciplinary team is supportive and the Perinatal Psychiatry role is highly valued.

Main duties of the job

The principle duties of the post will include managing a community perinatal caseload inconjuction with the perinatal mental health team, work closely with other members of the perinatal team, working closely with other teams such as maternity, primary care, health visiting, CMHT, MBU, CRHTT and other areas.

Provide professional supervision and management of junior medical staff and cover clinics with the Consultant is unavailable.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy which opened in October 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job description
Job responsibilities

The team provides both antenatal and post-natal group-delivered psychological interventions that treat both the parents mental health and any difficulties that arise in the mother-infant relationship. There would be opportunity for the new post holder to be involved in these interventions. The psychology team also provide individual, couple and dyadic interventions for mothers, partners and babies. We endeavour to provide psychological therapies specific to the perinatal period though difficulties may reflect longer standing problems that have not previously been addressed and are exacerbated by the pregnancy/birth. We often straddle the gap between primary and secondary care providing a truly 'specialist' service. There will be opportunities for the post-holder to become involved in perinatal mental health research along with colleagues in the perinatal team and clinical academics at Cardiff University.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential