Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visiting
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-WC-6193535
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Sandwell
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Health Visitor in Perinatal Infant MH
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Make a difference for Children, Young People and Families!
Are you a Health Visitor with substantial experience, looking for the next step in your career?
Are you passionate about providing and developing excellent services for children and young people?
If so Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust have an amazing opportunity for you..
The Specialist Health Visitor in Perinatal & Infant Mental Health is a new exciting role within Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust
The role will provide clinical leadership, programmes of training and staff development to ensure an efficient, effective and high-quality provision for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) support throughout Sandwell. Acting as a role model and a source of first line information for Health Visitors and partners in relation to PiMH.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Provide evidence based Perinatal & Infant Mental Health clinical expertise, leadership and support to staff across Sandwell & West Birmingham Health Visiting Service.
- Provide clinical expertise to meet the needs of the families in relation to parental mental health, parent infant relationships and infant and young children's development.
- Deliver direct care to families using recognised assessment and observation techniques
- Act as an advocate for parents and their infants with perinatal mental health difficulties to ensure they receive active and effective care
- Develop, disseminate, implement appropriate policies, procedures, and care pathways for women and families experiencing mild, moderate and severe mental health problems in active collaboration with colleagues and partners using Local and National Guidance
- Be committed to developing and transforming services, through training, audit. research and policy development
- Be a facilitator to develop effective working relationships across agencies.
- To have excellent knowledge of local safeguarding processes.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specifications for full details on the main duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant years’ experience of working within the community as a Health Visitor
- Evidence of managing a complex caseload providing high quality evidenced based care and recording outcomes where there are identified concerns about perinatal and infant mental health
- Demonstrate understanding of risks associated with working with complex families, multiagency partners to implement Early Help and Safeguarding plans
- Experience of providing training, specialist advice and supervision
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Specialist community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor
- Educated to Degree Level or equivalent
- Additional training in Perinatal and infant Mental Health
- Recognised Teaching and Assessor Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Registered mental Health Nurse,
- Parenting Programme facilitator course
- Experience of using recognised assessment and observation techniques
- Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to perinatal infant mental health
- Indepth knowledge and understanding of adverse childhood experiences and how these may impact the outcomes for children
- knowledge of local and national policies legislation that contribute to safeguarding both adults and children
- Understanding of the Healthy Child programme and decision making processes for children receiving services as different threshold
- Understanding of Trauma informed approaches
- Experience of multi professional working including the lead professional role
Desirable criteria
- Has worked as a lead professional using Early Help Assessment
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Experience of compiling audits and analysing data, to support future decision making
- Experience in providing supervision and training to others
- Experience of providing mentorship of newly qualified or newly recruited staff.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of co production with service users.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvonne Copeland
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07855514761
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