Job summary
Are you an experienced Nursery Nurse looking for a new opportunity in a rewarding, growing service? The Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit at NSFT is seeking a motivated Nursery Nurse to join our existing team.

As a Nursery Nurse, you will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team providing quality services for patients who are admitted to the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit, under the supervision of a registered professional.

Your role will be to assist mothers with perinatal mental health problems to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of the babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.

As a team, we are all committed to making a difference to the lives of our service users, their babies, and families in the antenatal period and for up to two years following birth.

Main duties of the job
The Kingfisher Mother and Unit provides inpatient care for the management of mental health problems that complicate pregnancy and the postpartum year. We work closely with other mental health services, jointly supporting women.

The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment-based approaches to mothers and infants. The successful candidate will:

• Provide perinatal support to antenatal and post-natal mothers in an inpatient setting, promoting and modelling a high standard of care at all times within the birth to five framework.
• Participate in the assessment of needs, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care plan for mothers and their babies.
• Understanding the stages of development, assisting when difficulties are experienced and empowering families to be confident in their parenting and care.
• To be part of the multi-disciplinary team utilising skills and knowledge in supporting and advising mums across all domains of caring for their baby.
• To maintain confidentiality and adhere to local policies at all times in line with Trust Policy.

About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 4
Salary: £28,392 to £31,157 a year gross per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 246-CEN8273762-A

Benefits

• NHS pension
• A comprehensive in house and external training programme
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Apply through our website.

Person Specification
Essential

• Able to travel independently
• Knowledge around the effect of perinatal mental health presentations and how this would impact on care of baby
• Competent clinical skills i.e. assessment, therapeutic interventions.
• Able to make autonomous decisions using judgement and to work effectively as part of a MDT.
• Experience of working within community services
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams
• CACHE level 3
• Diploma in Childcare and Education (NNEB)
• Diploma in Childcare Studies (BTEC)
• NVQ Level 3 in Childcare and Education

Desirable

• Competent teaching skills
• Planning and organising skills for caseload management
• Experience of working within a Perinatal Mental health Services
• Working with Service Users with mental health needs
• Video Interactive Guidance

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.