Job summary
- Main area
- Perinatal
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 333-J-HA-0744-A
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park Hospital, Mental Health Unit
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Job overview
Brent and Harrow Community Perinatal Mental Health Team, based at Northwick Park Hospital are recruiting for a Band 7, full-time permanent post. We are looking for one passionate Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking to make a difference whilst working in an environment that promotes staff development and training opportunities. CNWL is passionate about developing its own staff, driving them to go on to become more established practitioners and this post is no different.
You could be an existing Band 6 or Band 7 Nurse looking to take your next steps or an experienced practitioner looking for a new venture; we have training and development opportunities tailored to suit your needs within the perinatal framework. If you currently work within CNWL trust already then this would be a wonderful secondment opportunity for a year to experience the working within the perinatal specialty.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
To be you and to do what you do best in the job you love!
We are looking for a clinician with a special interest in improving care for women, birthing people and their families. Experience of working in the perinatal mental health field is not necessary but a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.
The Perinatal Mental Health service provides specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal mental health care for women from preconception, during pregnancy and up to two years postnatal who live in the boroughs of Brent and Harrow.
To help support you with the above we offer a robust induction and tailored training is given and encouraged. As an employer, CNWL and London Perinatal Network also offer various training opportunities, dependent on how long you are in post and on your development needs. In addition, we offer regular in-house training opportunities to learn from each other with the aim to continuously improve our practice.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to offering you an environment to flourish which includes dedicated development opportunities as well as a healthier work life balance. We will offer you;
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Commitment from the team to develop you by offering in house perinatal training in the form of masterclasses led by members of the perinatal service and associated integral agencies.
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Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
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Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
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On-site shadowing opportunities including Maternity Services, Mother and baby Unit, Home Treatment Team, Psych Liaison and many more.
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An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their service users.
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Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
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Award-winning Staff Networks.
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Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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To work with fathers, partners and significant others to provide appropriate education training and support.
To identify carers and refer/sign post for assessment as appropriate.
To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
To seek consultation where necessary with clinical supervisor and/or line manager on clinical work and participate in regular supervision.
To be mindful of the needs of women and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
To ensure that all Trust Perinatal service users have a perinatal care plan, which is implemented. This requires attending and contributing to pre and post-birth meetings.
To work with other professionals in supporting them to implement an agreed parent –infant care plan.
To attend the CNWL Safeguarding Children multidisciplinary meetings and any other relevant multidisciplinary meetings within Maternity services, as appropriate.
To be responsible for monitoring, recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. patient’s, families and carers, other professionals) orally and in writing.
To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN qualification and evidence of current registration on Part 3 of NMC register
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Practice Assessor/Supervisor training
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Specialist Training in perinatal & infant mental health
- Qualifications / training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
- Recently experience of perinatal mental health practice and/or safeguarding children practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree /diploma
- Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
- Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
- Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
- Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
- Evidence of networking within the Perinatal Psychitatry Specialty
- Experience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
- Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
- Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
- Experience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options.
- Team/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.
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Ability to implement evidence-based practice
- Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
- Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
- Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
- Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
- Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
- Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
- Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
- Ability to work effectively with women from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and with families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and ‘virtual’ team
- Computer literate to an intermediate/ advanced level
Knowledge and Understanding
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
- Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
- Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
- Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
- Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
- Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
- Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
- Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. MHA, MCA
Desirable criteria
- Experience of conducting clinical audits
Personal
Essential criteria
- Calm and profesional in manner.
- Able to exercise initiative, flexibility and tact.
- Ability to work under pressure and remain calm particularly in unpredictable situations where there may be exposure to highly distressed patients who may exhibit challenging behaviour
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to accept constructive criticism.
- Self-motivated with the ability to think laterally to problem solve
- Willing to engage in and use peer and group supervision creativity.
Other
Essential criteria
- The postholder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job
Desirable criteria
- Car driver with valid U.K driving licence
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Krupali Avlani
- Job title
- Team manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07597187551
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