Perinatal Mental Health Community Nursery Nurse

An opportunity has arisen for a Fixed Term post to cover Maternity leave for a Perinatal Community Nursery Nurse in the Milton Keynes Perinatal Mental Health Service from January 2025 to January 2026.

Milton Keynes Perinatal Mental Health Service is part of the wider Perinatal Mental Health Services for the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes STP. We are an energetic, creative and welcoming service which aims to offer and inspire excellence in community perinatal mental health care. The post-holder will join the existing multi-disciplinary team which comprises of a Perinatal Psychiatrist, High Intensity Psychological Therapist, Specialist CPN's, Perinatal Occupational Therapist and Team Administrators.

Perinatal Community Mental Health Services provide specialist care for women (and their babies) with moderate to severe mental illness. The service offers pre-conceptual counselling alongside working with women during their pregnancy and up to 2 years after birth. The role will involve working as a nursery nurse within the local community supporting mums experiencing moderate to severe difficulties with their emotional wellbeing during the perinatal period. You will work alongside families, carers and other health professionals to provide high quality care., The successful applicant will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering care to women in a range of settings including the woman's home, children's centres and other community settings. There will also be opportunity where appropriate to deliver interventions using video calls e.g. Zoom. The ability to work flexibly in multidisciplinary teams is therefore essential. As a perinatal community nursery nurse you will assist mothers with perinatal mental health conditions to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.The perinatal community nursery nurse will also work closely with the specialist occupational therapist in delivering group work e.g. Buggy Walks, Stay Play and Soothe and other groups to meet the service user needs.

You must hold a relevant qualification e.g. BTEC level 3 Diploma in Early Years, NVQ/SNVQ Level 3 in Early Years and Education, NNEB or equivalent qualification. Experience of working with women in the perinatal period is essential alongside experience of working in a community setting including an awareness of working with women from a multi-cultural and diverse community.

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.