Job summary
- Main area
- Maternal Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 364-A-A-8024
- Employer
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mid and South Essex, North East Essex, West Essex
- Town
- Mid and South Essex, North East Essex, West Essex
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Maternal Mental Health Midwife
Band 7
About Us
EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
- We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
- We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.
Our vision and values
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
- We Care
- We Learn
- We Empower
Our strategic objectives
- We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
- We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
- We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
- We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
- Mental Health Services
- Community Health Services
- Learning Disabilities Services
- Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.
Job overview
We are excited to offer this maternal mental health specialist midwife role following a successful bid to provide the Essex Maternal Mental Health Service (MMHS).
By your side, the Essex Maternal Mental Health Service ( MMHS) launched in October 2023 aims to integrate maternity and psychological therapy for women and birthing parents experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties related to their maternity experience of perinatal loss.
A fully therapeutic service is offered since June 2024 providing specialist care and support to those women and birthing parents who have experienced trauma and loss in the perinatal period and who are not eligible for specialist perinatal mental health services.
By Your Side aims to provide psychology support with the midwifery expertise for families accessing the 5 maternity units across Essex.
We are looking for a Maternal Mental Health Specialist Midwife who will work as the network and support each of our Maternity Units across Essex.
The successful candidates will be working at system and network level across Essex, reporting to the deputy head of midwifery and the Clinical lead.
Bases are across Colchester and Costal Towns (Tendering, Clacton on Sea, Manningtree, Frinton-on-Sea), Mid and South Essex (Chelmsford, Broomfield, South End, Braintree, Basildon, Maldon) and West Essex (Harlow) for this post. Hybrid working of both face to face and online working is encouraged.
Main duties of the job
A key aspect of this role will be to liaise closely with maternity staff to raise awareness of the psychological impact of perinatal loss on women, their families, and also on staff, as well as to raise awareness of perinatal mental health more generally.
The specialist midwife will have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills, particularly in relation to mental health and loss. This is a key role in developing and maintaining high standards of care for this group of women and their families.
The specialist midwife will be a key member of the By Your Side, the Essex MMHS team, contributing to mental health triaging, screening, assessment, signposting, support and psychological informed interventions where appropriate. You will work with the multi-disciplinary team of psychological therapists.
The specialist midwife should be an expert in their field and will have a responsibility to ensure that all care delivered is within accordance of Trust policies and procedures. The specialist midwife will also participate in the design, development and evaluation of services for this group of women.
You will also interface with the wider maternity context, including the Perinatal Mental Health Service and the voluntary and charity sector provisions.
There will be regular one to one support from the Clinical Lead/Principal Practitioner Psychologist in addition to your midwifery supervision with the deputy head of midwifery/consultant midwife.
Working for our organisation
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
- Season Ticket Loans
- NHS discounts for staff
- Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
- Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
- The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
- Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
Join our Staff bank
What is Staff Bank?
Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.
If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with valid NMC registration
- Evidence of on-going professional development
Desirable criteria
- Additional qualification in mental health or counselling
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience as a clinical midwife in a variety of settings.
- Experience of providing midwifery care to women with perinatal mental health illnesses
- Evidence of management and leadership skills gained through theoretical knowledge and/or experience.
- Experience of mentoring, supporting, and developing staff
- Experience of working within an MDT environment.
- Experience of liaising and fostering good working relationships with providers of mental health services.
- Post training experience of complex safeguarding issues and training
- Experience of leading, facilitating and supporting group work
- Experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive information
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with perinatal trauma and grief
- Experience of working with moderate / severe mental health presentations
- Experience of engaging hard to reach populations
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to provide excellent person-centred care
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Proficient IT skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and / or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Understands and overcomes barriers to communication and acceptance
- Ability to identify and solve problems
- Analyse, compare, and interpret complex information before making a judgement/decision.
- Ability to organise, prioritise and effectively manage workload.
- Knowledge of audit and evaluation processes
- Knowledge of safeguarding / child protection procedures
- Knowledge of quality governance
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and empowerment skills
- Commitment to ongoing learning for self and others within operational area
Desirable criteria
- Ability to assess, develop, plan, implement and evaluate a program
- Experience of defining pathways
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Resilience to effectively manage own emotions in response to the emotional distress of others and support the team members in this process
- Demonstrates motivation and enthusiasm for specialty
- Flexible approach to working
- Ability to work autonomously
- Able to identify own stressors and take appropriate action to prevent negative impact of this on wellbeing and seek appropriate and timely support
- Ability to assess their environment and make decisions that will ensure their own safety and the safety of the service user
- Able to work across the locality area as requested by Line Manager
- Ability to travel independently across a defined geographical area
- Ensures that the organisational values of we care, we learn and we empower are demonstrated by self and others every day and that any matters of concern are addressed in a timely way, either directly; or raised with the relevant Line Manager; or through the relevant processes within the Trust as appropriate.
- Current driving licence
- Valid enhanced DBS clearance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephanie Lambert
- Job title
- Clinical Lead & Principal Practitioner Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07581055280
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