Senior Perinatal Nursing Practitioner in London

NCEL Provider Collaborative are developing a pilot in-reach/outreach service from the East London Mother & Baby Unit (MBU). We are looking for a dynamic leader who can both support and develop clinical peer support service across multiple agencies and teams and scope the future requirements of a full in-reach/outreach model. This post is fully clinically supported by the Matron for the MBU and by the NCEL commissioning personnel in relation to service development. The post holder will provide highly specialist, evidence-based perinatal mental health care to women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum who have previously been inpatients on the East London Mother & Baby Unit, including those with complex mental health, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs.

Main duties of the job include:

• The role combines advanced clinical practice, comprehensive risk assessment and management, multi-agency collaboration, and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care for mothers, infants, and families.
• Working autonomously with complex and high-risk presentations, the post holder will provide specialist consultation, guidance, and support across acute inpatient and community services.
• Contributing to admission prevention, facilitating timely and effective discharge planning, and promoting continuity of care across perinatal mental health pathways.
• Playing a key leadership role within the service, providing clinical supervision, line management, and professional support to a small specialist multidisciplinary team, including Perinatal Peer Support Workers.
• Responsibility for service development, quality improvement initiatives, and maintaining effective partnerships with community mental health services and wider agencies across North Central and East London.

About us: Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Person Specification:

• Education/Qualification/Training: Registered Mental Health Nurse, Masters qualification or equivalent experience, Evidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice.
• Experience: Working in a complex multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context, Significant experience of management and leadership roles at band 6 level or above, Supporting and supervising students and junior staff including recognising and managing stress in others, Perinatal Mental Health Experience, Undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments, Working with people with mental health problems/learning disabilities.
• Knowledge & Skills: Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working, Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health, Mitigating and reducing clinical risk, Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.