Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective prioritisation and provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women.

The Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner provides specialist assessment, risk management, act as lead professional and deliver therapeutic interventions to women experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period. Working within a multidisciplinary team, the practitioner promotes recovery, enhances maternal wellbeing, supports positive parent-infant relationships, safeguards vulnerable families and contributes to the delivery of high-quality, person-centred perinatal mental health services.

Clinical

Contribute to the teams engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, women and their families, their careers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

Liaise with a wide range of other professionals and

Contribute to the safe and effective day to day operations of the service including the handling of clinical

Present information some of which may be contentious to women and their families/carers.

Ensure equality of access to services for all women paying particular attention to diversity issues and women from hard to reach

Attend management and professional meetings as directed by their line manager and professional

Responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day work load in collaboration with the needs of women and their families and the wider needs of the service.

Plan and organise case conferences, liaising with other agencies as required to meet the needs of women and their

Ensure that interventions are planned in an integrated and co-ordinated manner particularly where dependent on other external

Maintain a caseload of appropriate

Responsible for developing care packages including assessing, planning, intervention and evaluation. Ensuring active involvement of women and their families

Triage referrals by assessing and advising on eligibility

Provide specialist advice to referrers/other multi-disciplinary staff in relation to the care of the client.

Participate in all aspects of safeguarding including safeguarding children to level 3 as set out in safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.

Participate in the development of a programme of education for other professional groups working in perinatal/maternity services

Participate in programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings.

Contribute to professional clinical governance arrangements in order to ensure the quality of the service provided.

Participate in the development of Mental Health; responsible for care of own equipment

Where appropriate handles or processes cash or patients valuables

Provide clinical supervision for a number of qualified

Periodically co-ordinate the activity of the team and facilitate handover meetings.

Mentor students allocated to the

Maintain up to date client records in a timely and accurate

Ensure that statutory training associated with the post is

Participate in own clinical supervision and PDR.

Management and Personal Development

Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for women and their families, working to the principles of the functions policy implementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and values set out in them.

Contribute to the development of standards for the perinatal mental health service

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

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