Perinatal Mental Health Midwife

The post holder will be an Advanced Practitioner (Specialist Midwife of the newly developing Maternity Mental Health service attached to the existing Perinatal Mental Health Team.

Able to act as a lead resource with expert knowledge of specialty required to provide clinical advice and support to staff, mothers, babies and other disciplines.

The service will cover the whole county working with women before conception or during pregnancy presenting with birth related trauma including infant loss. This is a new service provision and Somerset are national early adopters.

An interest in this field of work is essential and specialist training will be provided. The Advanced Practitioner will work in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that women with birth related trauma receive the appropriate care and treatment.

The Advanced Practitioner will have a caseload of women with birth related trauma, women with higher risk mental health needs and their care will be managed in conjunction with the wider Perinatal Mental Health Team., Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The advanced practitioner will assess birthing people during the perinatal period who have a moderate to severe mental illness. Use their expert midwifery skills to support people who have experienced trauma during child birth, experienced child loss or have tokophobia.

As an organisation, the NHS offers a wide range of benefits including flexible working, fantastic pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance, career progression and regular conversations, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.The benefits of working in Somerset include the idyllic countryside, with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You will get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable. You will to experience the best of both in Somerset, the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata as part time post