Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
As a Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health, youll be part of our valued team at our Lancashire 0-19 service
You will feel valued as a Health Visitor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* 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
Main duties of the job
* 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 us
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.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job responsibilities
The Specialist Health Visitor for Perinatal & Infant Mental Health will work as part of the Lancashire Healthy Young People & Families Service and to be responsible for leading, embedding up to date research and evidence-based practice and developing Perinatal and Infant Mental Health services to all Lancashire Healthy Young People & Families Service staff. The specialist Health visitor will ensure the efficient delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, transition to parenthood and perinatal & infant mental health and other local commissioning requirements. This will include provision/oversight of any required training and Clinical Audit to provide assurance of a competent confident workforce. To ensure, jointly with other services, the development of multi-disciplinary pathways, policies and procedures to address the mental health needs of parents and infants in the perinatal period, including auditing of service. The Specialist HV for PIMH will have a high level of relevant, expert knowledge & skill and will work in collaboration with other services such as SPCMHT, MBU, Adult MH services, Midwifery, NICU, GPs, Third sector organisations and the Local authority.
The Specialist Health Visitor will provide relevant specialist consultation, training and support to the universal childrens services in relation to Perinatal & Infant Mental Health, as well as the relationship of the parental couple. The emphasis will be on early identification, interventions, prevention of mental health difficulties, and the promotion of positive relationships between parents and their infants for a defined caseload.
Base
To work across the Lancashire footprint. Base can be negotiated
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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