Job summary
- Main area
- Forensics and Specialist Services Directorate - Perinatal Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 380-FR0459
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poppy House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Perinatal Nursery Nurse
Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are delighted to announce that a full time Nursery Nurse opportunity has become available within the Perinatal Mental Health Community Service. The position is for the West Kent Team, working across the localities of Maidstone and South West Kent.
The West Kent team base is in Maidstone.
Working closely with NHS England, the aim is to improve the access and quality of perinatal mental health services across the counties.
We are therefore looking for an experienced Nursery Nurse to provide nursery nursing interventions and support to women in the community who are experiencing moderate to severe perinatal mental health issues. This will include women in the antenatal and postnatal periods. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working alongside professionals offering therapeutic input as well as wider community teams.
You must have a recognised Child Care qualification e.g. NNEB or BTEC National Diploma.
Main duties of the job
Work as a member of the MDT, assisting in the provision of interventions to meet the needs of the baby for those mothers receiving in-patient care.
Promoting and supporting the health of the mother and baby.
Provide an effective and supportive nursery nurse service to mothers in the antenatal and postnatal period, within the community.
Support the mother and the rest of the MDT ensuring the emotional and practical care of the baby and to monitor developmental progress.
Work in partnership with the family and the wider community nursing teams e.g. Midwives, Health Visitors, Community staff nurses, and Community Nursery Nurses.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main responsibilities of the role.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- NNEB or BTEC National Diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum 2yrs Post Qualification Experience
- Keen interest in working in Perinatal Mental Health
Desirable criteria
- Experience working with women experiencing Mental Health issues
Skills
Essential criteria
- Sound Knowledge of Child Development
- Sound understanding of attachment theory
- Good IT Skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Angela Shorter
- Job title
- Perinatal Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 622101
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