Clinical Perinatal Specialist

The North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) have developed Perinatal Mental Health Services in North Central London across the five boroughs of Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. The service has been running since 2017.

The Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Service (SPMHS) is a multi-disciplinary community mental health service for pregnant and postnatal women and birthing people with mental illness. The aim of the team is to detect, prevent and treat perinatal mental health problems to improve the experiences of pregnancy and the two years postpartum for service users and their families.

Staff work closely with the five maternity sites in North Central London; University College London Hospital, Whittington Hospital, Royal Free Hospital, Barnet Hospital and North Middlesex University Hospital. Clinics run at maternity sites, children's centres and community centres across the boroughs as well as home visits.

The model consists of an Administrative Hub and operates with 3 clinical sub-teams;

-East team (Enfield & Haringey)

-South team (Camden & Islington)

-West team (Barnet)

This role is based across the South Team (Camden and Islington). The post holder will be based at St Pancras Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be supported and supervised by the band 7 senior perinatal clinicians to carry out a high number of comprehensive new patient assessments and manage a caseload of patients in order to deliver care that is evidence based, effective, culturally competent care and safe in a timely manner. Assessments and support is provided via a combination of in person appointments at people's homes or in clinics or via video appointments.

In carrying out this role the post holder will make best use of the resources available to them and work closely with other NLFT mental health teams, social care teams, health services or community services as appropriate in order to assist recovery.

The post holder will support governance and audit within the team, ensuring that service delivery focuses on the quality agenda and that dignity, privacy and respect is afforded at all times to service users. The post holder will be responsible for writing up assessments and updating relevant health records in a timely manner and in-line with service operational policies.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

1. Undertake specialist initial clinical assessment and formulation using a range of both specialist and generic tools.

2. Make an autonomous judgement about own caseload

3. Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users, carers, and other services, considering the needs of a diverse community.

4. Intervene using a range of therapeutic modalities e.g. CBT, Systemic Family Therapy etc.

5. Assist in and determining the point of discharge/transfer of the service user.

6. Communicate clinical assessment or presentation to others within the team and appropriate external agencies including GPs.

7. Maintain contemporaneous records to the standard required by the trust and the relevant professional body.

8. Assess and manage risk.

9. Encourage service users to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their programme of care and with their consent, where appropriate, seek the cooperation of friends/relatives/carers.

Person Specification Qualifications/Registrations

• Diploma or degree leading to professional Registered qualification in Nursing, Occupational Therapy or Social Work
• Current registration with relevant professional body
• Evidence of recent and or on-going post registration academic study relevant to practice
• CBT qualification or other relevant qualification i.e., solution focused therapy, cognitive stimulation therapy, Mentalisation Based Therapy etc.

Experience/Knowledge

• Clinical experience with clients suffering from mental health conditions across a range of care settings, including community, primary care, outpatient, and inpatient settings.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary CMHT or mental health team
• Clinical management experience in mental health service delivery
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of utilising a variety of assessment tools as well as service specialist tools currently used in practice in relation to assessing / planning care needs and determining risk
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of their own role and that of others within the multi-professional team
• Sound practical experience of patient / service user care and engagement within the wider context of the organisation
• Experience of working in different cultural contexts.
• Post-qualification experience working with women in the perinatal period with severe and enduring mental health needs as well as their families, carers and networks
• Experience of teaching, training, and supervision.

Skills/Abilities

• Skills in the use of a range of methods of assessment, intervention, and management for the full range of problems of severity and complexity presented in adult mental health services.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with clients, their families, carers, and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Ability to form good working relationships with others in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice
• Evidence of interest in and ability to contribute to service development
• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£47,951 to £56,863 a yearPer annum including HCAS (pro-rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

455-NLFT-0857

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