Perinatal Mental Health Midwife

Are you a midwife looking for a new challenge, are you passionate about developing and maintaining high standards of care for women with mental health complexities during pregnancy and the postnatal period?, The post holder will work in partnership with service users, the multi-disciplinary team and local stakeholders to improve and protect mental wellbeing. This role will have key specialist clinical, consultative, training, practice development and strategic responsibilities

You will provide a link between the maternity service and the other services involved in mental health care to women, including local IAPT providers and specialist mental health teams

The post holder will ensure the delivery of high quality care to women experiencing mental health challenges and with the support of the maternity matron, contribute to the strategic direction for maternity and womens services.

You will develop and monitor evidence based practice ensuring a robust professional approach to service development and ensure that any subsequent changes to services are underpinned by appropriate support around training and education.

At Mid Yorkshire hospitals we strive to deliver the highest quality and safest care for approximately 5700 women and babies per year, we are passionate about ensuring women have a positive experience each and every time and are committed in supporting our teams to develop professionally.

We pride ourselves on The Mid Yorkshire's vision to provide high quality and safe. Maternity services at home, in the community and in our hospitals, to improve the quality of lives for women and their families

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated midwife who will act as an expert and a role model in the field of perinatal mental health and provide clinical and professional leadership to the Maternity service.

At Mid Yorkshire hospitals we strive to deliver the highest quality and safest care for approximately 5700 women and babies per year, we are passionate about ensuring women have a positive experience each and every time and are committed in supporting our teams to develop professionally.

If you have a passion for excellence, then Mid Yorkshire is the Trust for you!

We pride ourselves on The Mid Yorkshire's vision to provide high quality and safe. Maternity services at home, in the community and in our hospitals, to improve the quality of lives for women and their families.

If you have a passion for excellence, then Mid Yorkshire is the Trust for you!, We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.