Specialist Health Visitor in Perinatal Mental Health

**The closing date is 28th Dec 2025**-
**Job summary**:

- **Main duties, tasks & skills required**:

**About us**:

- Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
- Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
- We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
- Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
- **Job description**:

- We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
- **Person specification**:

- **Qualifications**:

- **Essential**:

- Qualification as SCPHN (Health Visiting)
- Relevant Master's degree or additional qualification relevant to the specialist post eg. mental health or counselling.
- Evidence of recent professional and personal development
- Car driver with business insurance as travel is required across Hampshire
- **Desirable**:

- Additional specialist qualification/ training in Behaviour Change, CBT, Solution Focused etc.
- Coaching or Improvement qualification
- **Experience**:

- **Essential**:

- A high level of relevant expert knowledge, skill and recent experience in parental mental health, developed through training and practice. Experience of working in partnership with other relevant services eg. CAMHS, specialist perinatal mental health, IAPT and 3rd sector organisations.
- Evidence of delivering high quality teaching and learning interventions to staff groups
- Evidence of leadership and practice development
- Facilitation of groups
- Evidence of multi-agency working
- Ability to work as a role model and expert in specialist perinatal mental health practice.
- Evidence of the ability to influence and motivate
- Knowledge and understanding of the improvement agenda
- Strong written and oral presentation skills, including the ability to author concise and persuasive reports and business cases
- **Additional Criteria**:

- **Essential**:

- Excellent understanding of clinical and professional requirements, current issues, policies and evidence based practice relevant to perinatal mental health, specialist community public health nursing and external bodies (NMC).
- Knowledge of clinical governance requirements and management
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work proactively and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders, senior managers and clinical staff, including at times of stress
- Excellent time management skills
- Ability to prioritise.
- A positive approach to teaching and customer care, with ability to manage difficult conversations. Evidence of teaching, presentation and facilitation skills.
- Negotiation/influencing skills
- Sensitive and honest with the ability to inspire and motivate others
- Evidence of good organisational skills and the ability to use own initiative and meet deadlines
- Excellent verbal, written, numeracy and IT skills
- Evidence of significant contribution to transformational change
- Demonstrates outstanding commitment to patient care, quality of care and outcomes
- Patient and person centered
- Looks across organisational boundaries and focuses on forging relationships
- Sets clear goals, promoting a learning culture and celebrating success
- Commitment to self-development, with an in-depth knowledge of key policies and themes in children's health, perinatal and infant mental health.
- Ability and interest in coaching of staff to improve performance
- Ability to interpret and analyse information, research and audit data to influence and initiate change.
- Clear knowledge of safeguarding children and adults and the risks associated with the presence of perinatal mental health within the family.
- **Desirable**:

- Evidence of leadership of transformational change
- iHV Infant mental health and/ or Perinatal mental health champion and training facilitator
- Facilitated Clinical Supervision for