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The Perinatal Mental Health Team are seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to caseload hold in the Cheshire East area  - this can be offered as either a Band 5 - Band 6 developmental post OR a Band 6 post.

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women.  The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants. The service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist services.

We welcome applicants with a professional qualification such as Nurses, Social Workers, Midwives, Occupational Therapists.

We welcome applications from newly qualified professionals for the Band 5 – Band 6 developmental post. A robust Trust and Perinatal Preceptorship will be put in place to support development of competencies. Once preceptorship and competencies are adequately completed, the post holder will progress to become a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner in the Perinatal Team. 

Please state on your supporting statement whether you are applying for the Band 5-6 developmental post or the Band 6 post.

Main duties of the job

We will consider applicants who wish to work full time, part time and condensed hours (flexible working).

Manage a defined caseload of women with diagnoses of moderate - severe mental health difficulties in the perinatal period under supervision from Clinical Lead. 

Complete initial assessments for women referred into the perinatal service.
To be duty practitioner on a rota basis. 

Contribute to MDT meetings to ensure effective plans and interventions can be established for women referred into the perinatal service. 

Contribute to the team's engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, women/birthing people and their families, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies. 

Liaise with a wide range of other professionals. 

Ensure equality of access to services for all women, paying particular attention to diversity issues and women from hard to reach groups.

Be responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day workload in collaboration with the needs of women and their families and the wider needs of the service with support from the Clinical Lead. 

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you. 

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone.  We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. 

To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.