Perinatal Senior Community Practitioner

• Undertaking specialist assessments
• Developing, implementing, and reviewing evidence-based care plans
• Delivering specialist therapeutic interventions and coordinating care within a community setting.
• Providing consultation, advice, and support to professionals across maternity services, primary care, health visiting, social care, and voluntary sector organisations.
• Working collaboratively with women, birthing people, families, carers, and partner agencies to promote positive outcomes for both parent and infant.
• Contributing to safeguarding processes and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of service users, infants, and families.
• Acting as a lead professional where appropriate and maintaining responsibility for a defined caseload of service users with complex needs.
• Ensuring care is delivered in a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, person-centred, and inclusive manner that values diversity and promotes equality.
• Contributing to service development, quality improvement projects, audit activity, and the implementation of evidence-based practice

Essential

• Current registration with an approved professional body
• Evidence of continued professional development
• For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework (at point of application)
• Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
• Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification
• Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area

Essential

• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
• Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Quality improvement activities

Desirable

• Leadership or management experience
• Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment

Essential

• Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients inthe designated field.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
• Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
• Detailed understanding of safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
• Research and development methodology.
• Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.

Desirable

• The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)

Essential

• Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
• Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
• Write reports.
• Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
• Use approved breakaway techniques.

Desirable

• Competency in venepuncture