Sanctuary Personnel is currently seeking an experienced Band 6 Perinatal Practitioner (RMN/SW/OT) to take on a new locum opportunity based in Essex.
Location: Essex
Contract Type: Locum, 3-month contract
Pay Rate: £26 - £27 per hour (assignment rate)
Duties:
- Manage a caseload of service users open to the perinatal service, offering a range of interventions, for a stated limited period
- Ensuring assessment, support/care-plans and intervention is shared and agreed with relevant individuals and agencies
- Plan care in association with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, involving involve service user, and where appropriate carers in the care planning and care delivery, having explained options and obtained consent to care and treatment
- Be responsible for organising and prioritising workload in the day to day allocation of work, responding to referrals as and when they present
- Be responsible for providing accurate records of information required for audit purposes
- Ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the register
- Ensure referrals to the team are processed and responded to accordingly, assessing and using professional judgement to assess level of need and urgency, as well as obtaining further information as required, determining appropriate intervention and proposed outcomes of intervention
- Work constructively with colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies
- Work collaboratively with multiagency colleagues to ensure a carefully planned ‘safety network’ of care is available for parents and babies
Requirements of the Perinatal Practitioner:
- A qualified RMN, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist to provide mental health interventions to pregnant women and/or their partners/significant others
- Have organisational knowledge relating to protocols and procedures and adhere to them
- Post qualification experience within a mental health setting and extensive experience of working in the community as a qualified Practitioner; and working with Safeguarding children cases
- Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable, and/or a keen interest in this specialist area
Contact:
This Band 6 Perinatal Practitioner job is advertised by Andrew Cleeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from: PIP Assessors, Ward Managers, Deputy Ward Managers, CAMHS Practitioners, Community Mental Health Nurses, Mental Health Nurses, Nurses, Psychiatric Nurses & Community Nurses as we have vacancies that match with these job titles. Online remote nurse jobs are available from time to time so please get in touch.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Registered Mental Health Nurse role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements.
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Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into you work placement.
