Perinatal Nursery Nurse

We are delighted to be advertising this new opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic nursery nurse to join our perinatal mental health team within the Parent and Baby day unit.

The role will involve supporting mums in the antenatal and postnatal period experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties. This may include work around bonding and attachment. You will work alongside families, carers and other health professionals to provide high quality care to both mum and baby.

The appointed individual will need to be innovative, compassionate and motivated. They will need to have a passion to support mothers, babies and their families working to make a positive contribution to they recovery journey.

Main duties of the job

To offer support to the nursing team providing a safe environment for baby to be cared for while mum attends appointments.

To offer individual sessions to a mum and baby, for example baby massage, education around parent craft and play, bonding and attachment support.

To offer group sessions where appropriate which may include partners.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.