The closing date is 19 October 2026
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum pro rata inclusive of 15% HCAS
Job summary
The Tri-borough Perinatal Mental Health Service (PMHS) have an exciting opportunity for motivated and creative Band 6 Nurses (fixed term for 12 months), who may be looking for a chance to develop their skills in the specialist area of Perinatal.
The vacancy is for 1.0wte Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse to work in Ealing borough for the Tri-Borough Perinatal Service.
The Ealing PMH Service has operational bases at Trust Headquarters at Armstrong Way(Ealing PMHS), Hounslow House for the Hounslow PMHS, and Hammersmith Hospital for the H&F PMHS. The PMHS works in an agile way – combination of community settings (mental health unit / maternity units / children’s centres), home visits and working from home. We require that staff do 60% office work as per Trust requirement.
Main duties of the job
- Ensuring women (age 18+) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants under twenty-four months receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and these are managed using evidence-based interventions throughout this period.
- Actively liaising with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings.
- Efficiently managing a caseload of up to 25 women (antenatal and postnatal) with moderate mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children’s centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitors or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings.
- Providing on-going training, supervision, consultation and advice on mental health issues in childbearing to a range of professionals who work closely with this group of women.
- Participating on rotation in the service daily Duty rota, to support the triage of new referrals and urgent / emergency presentations in the maternity units.
- Supervising and mentoring students in the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oRMN qualification and evidence of registration on Part 3 of NMC register or equivalent
- oEvidence of continuing professional development relevant to role
- oCurrent / up to date entry on the mentorship register (or equivalent)
Desirable
- oEducated to degree level or equivalent
- oDual qualified as RGN, Midwife or Health Visitor
- oSpecialist training in perinatal and/or infant mental health
- oClinical supervision training
- oQualification / training in additional specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant post qualification experience working in mental health services
- oExperience working with women with serious mental illness
- oEvidence of networking within the Perinatal specialty
- oExperience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- oExperience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- oExperience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- oExperience of undertaking complex mental health and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- oExperience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable
- oExperience of delivering both individual and group based interventions
- oExperience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
- oExperience of contributing to policies and procedures
- oExperience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- oExperience of multi-agency pre-birth planning for women with serious mental illness
Skills and ability
Essential
- oSufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make semi-autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options
- oTeam/self management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service
- oAbility to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
- oAbility to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- oAbility to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- oAbility to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- oAbility to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- oAbility to develop and deliver training on mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- oAbility to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
- oAbility to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- oExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- oAbility to work effectively from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma
Desirable
- oComputer literate to an intermediate level
Personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to demonstrate to empathise towards individuals with a mental health problem as well as show a positive attitude towards mental health care
- oAble to work seamlessly with other professional groups
- oAbility to deal with stress appropriately and work under pressure
- oGood attendance record
- oCommitment to life-long learning
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- oUp to date knowledge and awareness of recent research and current best practice in child care
- oKnowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
- oKnowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- oUnderstanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- oUnderstanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
- oKnowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
- oKnowledge of relevant legislation e.g. MHA, MCA
Desirable
- oUp to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).