Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner in Godalming

Main area Mental Health Perinatal Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: Monday - Friday 9-5pm Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 9-5) Job ref 325-8149752-COMM

Employer Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Berkeley House Town Godalming Salary £41,957 - £50,387 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 08:00

Community Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Job overview

Do you aspire to change peoples lives for the better?

To work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners.

Ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally.

We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training.

We are looking for a Perinatal Practitioner (OT, Social Worker or RMN) to cover the Southwest team at Berkeley House in Godalming.

You'll be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of the women accessing the service and lead the care for a specified caseload. You'll mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students.

Main duties of the job

• Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care needs, under the supervision of the Clinical Lead Nurse.
• To ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service.
• To ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU.
• Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of women with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community perinatal mental health nursing perspective and expertise.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached Job description and Person specification for further information about the role and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in health/social care or equivalent qualification/experience
• Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker
• Evidence of continued professional development

Experience

• Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload or service users with a range of mental health conditions
• Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary team and multi-agency environment
• Understanding of Perinatal mental health difficulties
• Experience of clinically supervising junior and unqualified staff and mentoring students

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under‑re‑presented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.