Perinatal Duty Practitioner

Job summary
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a Duty Practitioner within the Greater Manchester Specialist Perinatal Service. This is a newly created role designed to strengthen our duty function and ensure timely, responsive care for mothers and birthing people during the perinatal period.

As a Duty Practitioner, you will act as the first point of contact for referrals and urgent queries, providing clinical triage, risk assessment, and advice to professionals and service users. You will work closely with our multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective care pathways.

We have a vacancy in Cluster 2 Bolton Office.

The Greater Manchester Specialist Perinatal Service is a well-established, expert multidisciplinary community team. We provide specialist mental health care and advice from pre-conceptual medication planning, throughout pregnancy, and up to the infant's first birthday. Our service operates Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm (excluding bank holidays).

Main duties of the job
The role of the Perinatal community mental health duty practitioner will be to undertake duty triage appointments via video link or telephone, manage access to service for a complex caseload of service users, provide practical advice and support including risk management, psychological interventions and overseeing any safeguarding issues. Liaison with external stakeholders is a crucial part of this job to ensure patient led, collaborative, high quality care is being delivered.

The role will require the successful candidate to:

• To work in collaboration with both colleagues from Adult Mental Health services and staff from other perinatal services.
• To work collaboratively, Specialist Midwifery, Children and families' services, Early attachment services and IAPT
• The post holder will work in a variety of settings undertaking assessments, using the agreed processes of women/birthing people with serious mental health conditions who have been referred to the team.
• They will also ensure that quality and timely care is delivered at all times.
• Supporting students and new team members with information and shadowing opportunities within the duty team.

About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford,Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements: 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant professional qualification - Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) qualification/ Diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy/ Certificate of qualification in Social Work/ or Diploma or Degree in Social Work. E.g., Dip SW, Ba Social work
• Evidence of post registration development

Desirable

• Previous Perinatal Experience
• Previous Experience as a duty practitioner
• Postgraduate module in Perinatal mental health

Experience
Essential

• Have recent experience of providing mental health care, working within a community setting, or a CMHT in order to demonstrate the required understanding of Risk Management

Desirable

• Previous Experience as a duty practitioner

Knowledge
Essential

• Have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of relevant clinical interventions to safely provide treatment within a community setting.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of relevant risk assessment tools and risk management frameworks to sustain service users' community placements.
• Knowledge of childcare legislation and practice and understanding of the impact of mental health upon parenting abilities / family interactions.

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of the needs of women/birthing people/birthing people suffering from perinatal mental illness through evidence of ongoing formal training.

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).