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Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated health and social care Trust. We are the main provider of a wide range of specialist health & social care services to individuals and their carers or families in Sheffield. The Trust has an excellent reputation for providing high quality services to people within our care. Our vision is that people who use our services will achieve their full potential, living fulfilled lives in the community.
We provide:
* Mental health services for adults and older people
* Services for people with learning disabilities
* Services for people with drug and alcohol problems
* A wide range of other specialist services, such as for people accessing maternal mental health, gender dysphoria services and psychology for people with physical health problems.
We provide a range of in-patient and residential services for individuals who cannot be appropriately helped in a community-based setting. Within our learning disability services we work closely with a large number of supported living settings/residential care homes in partnership with housing associations. Many of the people we help are seen in their own homes by members of staff, and some people attend our clinics to see nurses, social workers, therapists or doctors.
Key details
Location: Argyll House, Sheffield, S11 9AR
Contract type & working pattern:
* There is more than one post available. There is a permanent post for 22.5 hours and a fixed term or secondment opportunity for 30 hours a week.
* Part time
* Flexible working
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 pa (Band 6)
Job Overview:
The Perinatal Mental Health Service is a growing specialist service for women and their families in Sheffield. We are excited to have received investment to expand the service, and are now recruiting more staff to come and join our team.
You will need to be an experienced Mental Health Practitioner (we are inviting applications from a range of professional backgrounds) with a real passion for perinatal mental health. Experience in this field is not essential and full induction is offered, but you will be keen to develop a career in this area.
Key Responsibilities:
* To work as a Practitioner in the Perinatal Mental Health Service in Sheffield.
* To triage referrals into the service and work into a duty rota.
* To undertake the assessment and co-ordinate the treatment plans of clients with, or at high risk of, childbirth related serious and complex mental illness.
* To provide specialist advice about evidence based treatments for perinatal mental health disorders, both to other professionals and to service users and their families.
* Joint working with other services and organisations is an essential part of the role.
* To support clients with their recovery from or adaptation to their mental health difficulties and ensure timely and safe discharge from the service.
Minimum Requirements:
* Substantial post-registration experience including acute / crisis work.
* To have worked in multi-disciplinary / multi-agency teams.
* Registered Mental Health Nurse, Social Worker, Occupational Therapist or other relevant AHP.
* Educated to degree level or above or the equivalent.
We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role.
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