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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Perinatal Psychiatric  Inpatient Team.  The Margaret Oates Mother and Baby Unit is located at Greenhaven and cares for women with serious mental illness in the perinatal period.

The Margaret Oates, Mother and Baby Unit has the capacity to admit 8 mothers and their babies. We accept admissions from the whole of the England for mothers with serious mental illness in the third trimester of pregnancy and up to one year post-partum.  Babies are admitted with their mothers to build and maintain the mother/infant relationship. The Unit is accreditated by the Perinatal Quality Network.

Main duties

An opportunity has arisen within the Perinatal Inpatient Unit for a  full time, 37.5 hours per week,  Band 3 Healthcare Assistant post, working a mixture of long days, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.   You will be part of a dedicated MDT delivering high quality care to women and their babies. Experience of working within an acute setting with serious mental illness is preferable, however a full induction programme will be provided.  You will be expected to work within the multi-disciplinary team, supporting mothers and their babies, supporting both in the day to day care.

Main duties of the job

This role requires an individual with the ability to provide excellent patient care  standards  within the clinical area, and work with mothers, who are suffering a severe mental illness, developing and building confidence in interactions with their babies.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.  We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.  We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC