To ensure that all borough service users over the age of 18 who are pregnant, have infants under one year old or have pregnant partners, receive appropriate perinatal support for themselves and their baby. This service will be delivered in a manner that is competent, compassionate and recovery focused. This will be achieved through: Direct work with perinatal women - assessment, treatment, planning and review Training other staff Joint work with other staff Advice and consultation to other staff Liaison work with maternity services Linking with the Named Professionals for Safeguarding Children, Psychiatric Liaison Team and other relevant staff Promoting the development of perinatal mental health services in assigned locality Key relationships: Members of the Perinatal Mental Health Team Midwives Safeguarding Children Team Associate Director and Named Professionals All Trust services in assigned borough Liaison Psychiatry Local MBUs Local maternity Safeguarding Children Teams Princess Royal University maternity services, Queen Elizabeth Hospitalmaternity wards and Darenth Valley maternity services Childrens Social Care Services Key tasks and responsibilities:1. To provide specialist case management to a caseload of pregnant women and women with a baby up to and over 12 months old.2. As a member of the perinatal team, you will be expected to exercise autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing specialist assessment and follow up for womenreferred with moderate to severe perinatal mental health problems in a variety of settings- inpatient (acute maternity ward, general adult psychiatry inpatient wards and community (including home, childrens centres, maternity clinics)3. To participate in the screening of referrals in line with local team arrangements4. To record and update on the Trust and maternity computerised client information systems ensuring that entries are accurate and contemporaneous.5. To be accountable for own professional action and to seek advice andsupervision from line manager where needed over ethical issues and Trust