Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
HCRG Care Group, Primrose, Lancaster
Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
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HCRG Care Group, Primrose, Lancaster
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted today, 25 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 10c04c87336e4d058d795987387daffe
Full Job Description
- Work as a specialist practitioner to manage, develop and lead family based care in the perinatal period where the parents have or are at risk of developing mental health difficulties and where these are likely to impact on their infants emotional development. This will supplement the care given by the universal health visiting service.
- Act as an advocate for parents and their infants with perinatal and infant mental health difficulties to ensure they receive active and effective care. This will be done by liaison with adult mental health, perinatal services, maternity and other partner agencies through attendance at various weekly multi-disciplinary team meetings.
- Undertake comprehensive specialist holistic assessment of parental mental health and the parent-infant relationship who are referred for additional support.
- Provide a link between Health visitors, Midwives, GPs, Specialist Perinatal and Adult mental health services including other agencies in relation to families experiencing challenges within the parent infant relationship and/or significant mental health issues.
- Provide Specialist HV PIMH support / link for the Mother and Baby Unit (Ribblemere ward) including a weekly child health clinic to facilitate continuity of universal HV service provision.
About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. - Band 7with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
You will feel valued as a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: