Job summary

Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager - Band 7

Full time - Permanent role

Are you passionate about ensuring that women and baby have access to high quality and evidence-based mental health and psychological care?

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker / Nurse / Occupational Therapist to join our perinatal team. Maternal mental health is a life-saving, crucial and growing area of practice attracting bringing together some of the most passionate and skilled health professionals in the NHS. 10% of women develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or within the immediate period after the birth of their baby and untreated can have a devastating impact on the women affected and their families. In the UK, mental health in pregnant and post-natal women has previously often gone unrecognised, undiagnosed and untreated.

Main duties of the job

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust's specialist perinatal mental health service work is a multidisciplinary team that is meeting the specific needs of ante and perinatal women with a high quality multi-disciplinary service and linking with the full range of health and social care professionals including GPs, health visitors and midwives as well as gynaecology, obstetrics ETC.

This role involves working alongside the service lead and advanced nurse practitioner as part of the leadership team. The team works across the trust but is based in Willenhall in Coventry. Access to transport is essential.

You will be expected to line manage a variety of professionals alongside the professional leadership team. The role also includes budget management, management of incidents, completion of audits - this list is not exhaustive. you will also be part of the wider community mental health management team and complete generic roles such as complaint investigations.

The service is a dynamic, exciting collaboration across three commissioning groups and three maternity hospitals and a range of community settings.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Qualifications

Essential

• Specialist expertise across a range of procedures, Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma Specialist clinical/managerial training
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Relevant Professional Qualification ie RMN, DipCOT

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Ability to demonstrate and apply in depth understanding of policies, procedures and legal frame works
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of Equal Opportunities
• Effective organisational and delegation skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply in depth understanding of safety issues
• Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations

Experience

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge gained within a similar environment over a significant period of time
• Significant experience of risk assessment and positive risk management
• Proven experience of managing a multi -disciplinary team

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.