Mental Health Practitioner - Perinatal Team

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner - Perinatal Team
Closing date: 01 August 2026

Job summary
Mental Health Practitioner
Dudley and Sandwell Perinatal Mental Health Team
Base: Bushey Fields Hospital, Dudley
2 x WTE posts
1 x 0.4 WTE post

The Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner will work as a member of the wider Perinatal Mental Health Service, providing specialist support to women during the antenatal period and up to two years postnatally. The practitioner will manage a defined caseload of women experiencing moderate to severe perinatal mental health difficulties, including those with pre-existing severe mental health disorders, with the aim of promoting maternal wellbeing, strengthening the parent-infant relationship, and reducing risk during this significant period.

The post holder will undertake comprehensive, holistic community-based assessments across a range of settings, developing and delivering person-centred care plans with a strong emphasis on the parent-infant relationship, safeguarding, and collaborative multidisciplinary working.

The post holder must hold a full driving licence and have permanent access to own transport and have appropriate insurance.

Main duties of the job
Acting as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will provide assessment, psychosocial, evidence based interventions using a collaborative, recovery approach and will be skilled at proactive and positive risk management. In addition the practitioner will be expected to offer both support and advice to partners and relatives and to work in an integrated manner with key partner organisations and professionals. The post holder will be required to provide consultative advice to other agencies and to participate in delivering training and development for other professionals.

About us
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country. Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• CAMHS

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

As a public body, we are accountable to the people we serve. The Trust Board is responsible for determining the strategy and overall direction of the Trust in an open, honest, and transparent manner.

Details
Date posted: 31 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
Salary is pro rota for part-time staff
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 285-2297-CYPF
Job locations:
Bushey Fields Hospital
Bushey Fields Road
Dudley
DY1 2LZ
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The post holder:

• Will act as an independent practitioner within the community setting, while liaising with other professionals as necessary.
• Will ensure that each assessment is conducted collaboratively in consultation with the woman and her partner/carer, where available, and the assessment will be informed by the wider MDT involved, including midwifery and health visiting.
• Will take on the role of care coordinator and manage a defined caseload of women
• Will provide supervision to others as appropriate and provide cross cover for colleagues as required.
• Will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local, national policies and legislation, which govern current service provision and audit.
• Will be responsible for ensuring effective communication pathways exist.
• Will be responsible for ensuring the promotion of equality, diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
• Will be responsible for identifying and contributing to the training needs necessary in providing quality evidence based care as appropriate.

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Or Equivalent professional qualification and valid registration
• Post registration experience in adult mental health.

Desirable

• ENB 812 or equivalent Mental Health Studies Community, Degree/ Diploma
• Experience working in a community setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Bushey Fields Hospital, Bushey Fields Road, Dudley, DY1 2LZ, United Kingdom

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Team Manager
Shazin Virk
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