This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the Kent Health Visiting Service as a Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Lead Health Visitor. The Lead Health Visitor for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health will be responsible for supporting the development and implementation of the Health Visiting Service's Perinatal and Infant Mental Health offer. They will work in the locality area of West Kent to provide expert clinical leadership to the Health Visiting Service and multi-disciplinary teams in relation to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and Parent and Infant Relationship. The post holder will ensure the development and implementation of comprehensive multi-disciplinary care pathways, policies and procedures, to address the mental health needs of women, infants, and their families in the perinatal period, actively working in collaboration with other services.
Main duties of the job
The PIMH Lead Health Visitor role requires a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills to ensure consistency, equity and efficiency of service delivery to families. They will work as part of the local health visiting team to support the wider delivery of the Health Visiting Service, provide relevant training and support to the service with an emphasis on prevention and early identification of mental health difficulties. They will build/strengthen partnership and foster positive relationships between parents and their infants. This will be achieved through the development of training packages, and programmes that aligned with national and local policies and procedures which will be delivered internally, to our external partners and the wider public health workforce. The Lead will also be responsible for co-facilitated group interventions, and support the delivery of the Institute of Health Visiting's Emotional Wellbeing Visits intervention and ensure that practice is evidence-based.
About us
Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification give you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
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At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Health Visiting Specialist Community Public Health Nurse qualification
* Training/qualifications specific to perinatal mental health
Desirable
* Registered mental health qualification
* Evidence of Post Graduate Specialist qualifications (Level 7) relevant to area of practice.
* Relevant certificate in Education and Training Facilitation e.g. Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET), Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training (CET)
* Relevant qualification in clinical supervision
Knowledge
Essential
* Specialist knowledge in relation to the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme
* Up-to-date research based professional knowledge about Perinatal and Infant Mental Health including appropriate interventions
* Understanding of the impact of poor parental mental health on infants and other family members, and the role that the health visiting services can play in mitigating this
* Specialist knowledge and experience in perinatal and infant mental health, developed through training and practice
* Understanding of National Service Framework policies and procedures, e.g. safeguarding, and NICE guidelines
Desirable
* Have a working knowledge of common psychiatric medications used for the treatment of women during pregnancy and postnatally
* Proven ability to develop effective partnerships to achieve practical outcomes across organisational boundaries including statutory organisations, external agencies, community and voluntary organisations
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Ability to manage time effectively, priorities and work under pressure to meet deadlines
* Ability to work effectively with a variety of people at all organisational levels across different sectors
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate well with staff and other service organisations
* Effective influencing, facilitation skills and negotiating skills
* Excellent computer skills to create reports, use email, read excel spreadsheets etc.
Ability to Manage
Essential
* Able to support the implementation of local and national agendas for health under the guidance of senior management
* Ability to manage own time effectively
* Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Ability to work under pressure
* Flexible and adaptable approach to working arrangements surrounding remote access, significant travel across the county and occasional travel to UK cities
* Commitment to delivering service improvement and sustainable change which brings measurable benefits to clients and staff
* Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team and being supportive and challenging colleague's views and attitudes when necessary
* Able to assess a situation, set priorities and problem solve quickly and effectively
* Ability to make decisions
* Capacity to handle conflict and remain calm under pressure
Desirable
* Ability to work at both a strategic and operational level
Employer details
Employer name
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Tonbridge and Malling Health Visiting team
Tonbridge and Malling
ME20 7NJ
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