Perinatal Specialist Nurse

The Kingfisher MBU Outreach service offers support to all women who required an admission to the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit, due to moderate to serious mental illness in the perinatal period. The perinatal period is a crucial and vulnerable time for woman. We know as many as one in five women experience post or ante natal depression, anxiety or in some cases severe mental illness such as psychosis during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth. The purpose of the MBU is to keep the Mother & Baby together, whilst treating the mother's mental health and promoting or maintaining attachment and bonding.

The Kingfisher MBU Outreach service aims to support women with the transition from the MBU to the home environment, alongside the woman's designated community support network. Transition starts already during the admission and continues for up to three months after discharge.

We aim to create a positive and supportive community to promote the mother's recovery and baby's development. The long-term benefits of this kind of specialist care offers early help and support to parents for them to build a healthy bond with their children and improves outcomes for the child.

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse for the MBU Outreach Team who is committed to supporting women at a very vulnerable time in their life, to support both Mother and baby for the best possible outcomes.

You will provide individualized support to service users with transitioning from the ward to home environment. To reach this goal, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies and professionals in the community settings.

You will have fundamental skills of risk assessment, care planning, care implementation and evaluation of care with the Mother whilst also working alongside the nursery nurses to ensure safe care of baby.

You may be responsible for the supervision of junior staff and will receive support to learn how to gatekeep and triage our referrals and we encourage our staff to consider development opportunities.

The Perinatal service can offer training, building upon the skills you have to make you a Perinatal Specialist, if you are not one already.

We value to importance of professional progression and actively strive to create growth opportunities within our team. You will be encouraged to engage in supervision and annual appraisal to map your professional development plan. This year to date we have invested significantly in our team to support professional progression and passions.

We believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, and able to provide better outcomes for our service users.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

Some of the benefits you can expect:

NHS pension

a comprehensive in house & external training programmes

career progression

starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)

staff physio service

NHS discounts and many more

We are looking for Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse for the MBU Kingfisher Outreach Service. Experience of working with women requiring perinatal mental health support is desirable.

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We are looking for motivated practitioners who have positive and respectful characteristics with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The MBU Outreach service requires excellent skills in liaising with other professionals and agencies, as they continue to be the service user's care coordination. The role of the Outreach Perinatal Specialist Nurse is to work alongside the existing professional support network and focus on the transition between ward and home environment. This will include preparing the service user for safe discharge with the wider multi-disciplinary team with multi-agency working, integrating maternity, community and primary care services.

This is a fantastic opportunity for somebody with a passion for supporting mothers and we encourage anyone to contact us to discuss this opportunity. We would like to hear from dedicated and enthusiastic qualified nurses who would like to work flexible and creatively within our experienced team. You will have regular clinical and management supervision with a yearly appraisal to discuss your goals and aspirations.

For further details regarding this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.