The Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Team provides support for women who experience serious mental health problems or present with a high risk of relapse during pregnancy and the postnatal period. The team is able to work alongside women and their families until the babies' first birthday.
The team works across Bristol, North Somerset, & South Gloucestershire (BNSSG). The team has a shared care ethos, working closely with primary care, maternity services, adult mental health teams, early years' services, and independent sector organisations to ensure that women can have access to specialist support, advice, risk assessment, and care planning in relation to their mental health needs.
The Perinatal Nursery Nurse will work with service users over a variety of areas, particularly in relation to caring for their child and ensuring the bonding with, and well-being of, their baby. They will have regular contact with the mother; the frequency of this will be agreed between the service user and nursery nurse and will depend on need and level of support required.
Main duties of the job
The Perinatal Nursery Nurse approach will be person-centred, adapting to changing needs, but incorporates some of the following:
1. Managing the expectation and practicalities of motherhood
2. Antenatal support: bonding with bump, looking after yourself during pregnancy, exploring what parenting values are important to you, preparing a hospital bag, and what equipment/resources are needed to care for a baby.
3. Support with bonding and attachment - postnatal.
4. Managing emotions of the mother and signposting to appropriate additional local support if needed (within team and without), enabling them to feel confident managing their baby's emotions.
5. Practical parent craft
6. Baby Massage (Bonding, value of touch, responsiveness, understanding your baby's communication)
7. Neonatal Behaviour Observation (NBO) (getting to know your baby)
8. Breast/bottle feeding and expressing
9. Sleep Hygiene, managing expectations, and highlighting sleep patterns in babies
10. Support with adapting to the new role as a mother
11. Early play and development work
12. Signposting (NHS and voluntary/charitable)
About us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire, and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and well-being. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Job responsibilities
The Perinatal Nursery Nurse will also be involved in identifying and managing any risk that may be present, reporting this as appropriate/necessary, and supporting the process to reduce this risk. They will liaise with other members of the Perinatal Team, particularly the Perinatal Care Coordinator/Associate Worker, and other individuals involved in the service user's care.
You will demonstrate experience or strong interest and awareness of perinatal mental health, clinical drivers, and risk factors. Due to the very limited public transport availability in the BNSSG area, you must have access to your own transport for work. This role will involve a significant amount of travel.
You are strongly encouraged to contact the team before you apply to understand the unique aspects of this role.
Person Specification
Experience
* Working with other professionals, particularly regarding safeguarding issues.
Qualifications & skills
* Qualification in BTEC level 3 Diploma in Early Years OR CACHE Diploma in Child Care and Education, Level 3 (2-year course) OR NVQ/SNVQ level 3 in Early Years and Education.
* Up to date with current child care practice as recommended by the Department of Health and ability to teach service and other staff.
* Can demonstrate an understanding of how mental health issues can affect people.
* Good organisational and time management ability.
* Hold a current driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes.
* Baby massage training.
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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