Perinatal Mental Health Specialist

7 days ago

Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Kent and Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time

Job Overview

The Perinatal Mental Health Specialist will play a crucial role in embedding and creating new ways of involving service users and carers across the South East Region Perinatal Provider Collaborative.

The Provider Collaborative aims to ensure that women requiring an inpatient stay for their acute perinatal mental health issues will receive specialist care, as close to home as appropriately possible, which is connected with local teams and support networks.

This role focuses on the need to bring strong leadership around the participation of people who use Perinatal services and their carers/family. This includes all aspects of planning and delivery of perinatal mental health services within the directorate to promote improved service user and carer experiences through new insights and perspectives.

The successful candidate will work strategically across the South East Region PC to develop and implement a strategy that supports the broad participation agenda. They will project manage a variety of work streams that underpin the collaborative participation agenda, ensuring that practice is coordinated and supports and responds to the Trust's corporate social inclusion strategies.

The Perinatal Mental Health Specialist will work alongside partner organisations such as ICBs, local authorities, and voluntary and community partners to look towards the innovation of health care along with the NHS Long-Term Plan.

The role will work with the Management Team to ensure a consistent approach across the collaborative.

Main Duties of the Job

  • Hold the SE Region PC to account for activity related to the participation of service users and carers in their work.
  • Lead on a variety of work streams that underpin the participation agenda, ensuring that practice is coordinated.
  • Support/upskill/train/encourage service users and carers to participate across a range of participation activities.
  • Develop a pool of service users/carers across the SE Region – working in partnership with others - to enable effective involvement within the statutory sector in meetings, interviews, and other required activities.
  • Produce regular reports on specific issues and/or progress against the agreed annual plan

Working for Our Organisation

Our organisation, Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, provides mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

We are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones, and we are looking for a skilled and dedicated individual to join our team.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard, and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Benefits

  • Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank holidays
  • Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
  • Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).

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