Specialist Perinatal Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to women with an identified caseload. The post holder will deliver high-quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment-based approaches. Key responsibilities include assessing needs, coordinating care, managing a caseload, and delivering specialist interventions. The role also involves providing advice to professionals, contributing to safeguarding, and maintaining accurate records.
Key responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with women, families, and partner agencies to assess need, coordinate care, manage a caseload, and deliver specialist perinatal mental health interventions.
- Provide advice and support to professionals, contribute to safeguarding, clinical governance, audit, training and service development activities.
- Maintain accurate records, and support the supervision of staff and students.
- Participate in team coordination, professional development, and statutory training requirements.
- Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for women and their families.
- Ensure a duty of care to your patients and clients, taking personal accountability for your own practice.
Essential criteria
- Registered professional qualification
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (ie Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
Desirable criteria
- Safeguarding Level 3 (or willingness to undertake)
- Community mental health experience
- Caseload management experience
- Perinatal mental health knowledge/experience
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training.
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Perinatal Practitioner
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of 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 service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist services.
Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively with women, families, and partner agencies to assess need, coordinate care, manage a caseload, and deliver specialist perinatal mental health interventions. Provide advice and support to professionals, contribute to safeguarding, clinical governance, audit, training and service development activities, maintain accurate records, and support the supervision of staff and students. Participate in team coordination, professional development, and statutory training requirements.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our reg
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