Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 300 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Perinatal Mental Health Midwife to work in St Helier, Jersey on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Perinatal Mental Health Midwife job is £52,800 - £56,469 per annum.
Duties:
- Developing and maintaining high standards of care for women with mental health problems in pregnancy and the postnatal period, and their families
- Be responsible for providing extra support and care to some pregnant women with more severe mental health problems, in partnership with their own midwife and the perinatal mental health team
- Work closely with women and their families to plan and coordinate their care based on their individual needs
- Provide a link between the maternity service and other services involved in mental health care women, including the local therapy service and perinatal mental health team
- Ensure that relevant pathways, policies and processes to identify women with, or at risk of, or with existing mental illness are developed, implemented and audited
- Working with a range of relevant professionals, services and agencies, stakeholders, and the public health team
- Support your colleagues through coordinating and providing training and guidance in maternal mental health for key maternity staff, to enable them to provide holistic care that optimises mental as well as physical health in all areas of maternity care
- Act as a resource for all staff involved in maternity care (including obstetricians, midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers)
- Provide evidence-based advice, support and information with regards to the appropriate management and referral of women with mental health problems and their families
- Develop and coordinate training programmes for staff and participate in the induction of new staff
- Co-ordinate the training of midwives, obstetricians, health visitors, GPs and other agencies as required
- Ensure midwives are trained in the identification and onward referral process for women at risk of, or with, existing mental illness
- Ensure midwives are aware of care pathways for women with mild, moderate and severe mental illness and deliver their contribution to these, including the provision of information and support, and the prediction and detection of mental illness
Requirements of the Perinatal Mental Health Midwife:
- Have a high level of relevant expert knowledge and skills, which you will use to manage, develop and lead care for pregnant and new mothers with mental health needs
- Understand the impact of poor maternal mental health on infants and other family members, and the role that maternity services can play in mitigating this
- Have up to date knowledge of local services available to pregnant women in relation to their mental health needs
Contact:
This Perinatal Mental Health Midwife job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
