Perinatal Nursery Nurse

Job overview

The Perinatal Parent Infant Mental Health Service are looking for an enthusiastic, passionate and knowledgeable nursery nurse to join our team

on a permanent basis for the London Borough of Waltham Forest.

The successful post holder will work as part of our Multi disciplinary team, providing treatment and intervention to women during the perinatal

period who are experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties.

The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and

attachment based approaches to mothers and infants in Waltham Forest.

The Nursery Nurse role involves working with mothers and babies in their own homes, the community or at other premises such as children's

centres across the boroughs. At the time of advertisement, we are using a blended hybrid model of working due to Covid-19 restrictions. This

involves a mixture of remote working and face to face contacts.

Please be aware that this advert will be closed early if we received a high volume of applicants

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the multidisciplinary team in meeting the needs of children and their families by undertaking delegated duties that

support and enable family centred care. To work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring that there is appropriate communication

with other professionals involved in the care of the child and mother.

You will work alongside professionals offering therapeutic input with the mother and baby relationship as a focus of your work.

The post holder would be expected to have robust knowledge of child development and attachment which will inform their intervention.

They

should also have experience with maternal mental illness and the impact this has on the mother baby relationship.

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