About the job

About The Team

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, energetic and clinically confident Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our Community Perinatal Teams across the Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark teams due to further expansion of the Perinatal Community services. You will have experience of general adult inpatient, Mother and Baby inpatient unit, community mental health services or Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). You will also have experience of working with women who suffer from moderate to severe mental illness in the perinatal period.

You will be familiar with Perinatal community standards, governance and performance structures and confident in partnership work with other agencies such as Children and Family Social Services, Midwifery and Obstetric teams, CMHTs, Health Visitors and the Voluntary sector.

You will display excellent clinical knowledge and skilled practice in women with mental health disorders in the perinatal period. You will provide consistently skilled judgments in clinical work. You need to have experience of working in a richly diverse inner city Borough and have the understanding of the opportunities challenges that this brings.

About The Role

Working closely with your colleagues in PMHT’s, you will receive support and be part of the on-going Perinatal workforce training within SLaM and London wide. In addition, you will be part of the Pan London Community Perinatal Nurses network. This is a great opportunity to supervise junior staff, student nurses as well as implementing new ways of working using best practice and NICE guidelines.

The Croydon Perinatal Service provides a Monday to Friday, 9-5 service to service users residing within the Borough of Croydon offering assessment, intervention and treatment to women who suffer from moderate to severe mental health disorders in the perinatal period.

About the location:

You will be based at the Croydon Perinatal Team, Bethlem Royal Hospital.

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Beth Wills Job title: Team Leader Email address: Elizabeth.Wills@slam.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0203 228 0304

Sam Chong

Clinical Service Lead

07964 763 766 / Samantha.Chong@slam.nhs.uk