Perinatal Clinical Team Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 19/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
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
Livewell Southwest is seeking an inspiring and motivated leader to manage their Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. This role involves supporting women experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the first postnatal year. The Team Manager will provide leadership, direction, and support to a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality, safe, and effective services. They will also work with various partners to shape integrated care pathways and drive service improvement.
Essential criteria
- Perinatal subtypes of diagnosis, knowledge of perinatal care pathway, knowledge of evidence based recommended treatments, knowledge of initiatives within perinatal community, knowledge of assessment of physical risk and evidence base
- Acute Mental Health
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Physical health needs Knowledge of Livewell Southwest
- policies to support management of service
- Computer literacy skills, including quick and accurate use of keyboard, presentation of data, word processing, electronic delivery of presentations report writing and internet use to inform practice.
- An ability to be able to use highly developed interpersonal
- and communication skills to impact on the behaviour and views of clients with severely challenging, sometimes life threatening behaviours on a frequent basis
- Ability to undertake a full set of physical observations and respond accordingly.
- Demonstrate a high level of empathy, self-awareness and emotional resilience having to cope with emotionally demanding situations on a frequent basis
- Able to use advanced analytical skills and to concentrate for prolonged periods during emotive and stressful situations.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of time management and organisational skills
- Able to work within codes of practice of NMC policies and procedures
- Highly specialist skills demonstrating varied comprehensive clinical experience in order to deliver best practice for a range of complex conditions.
- Current valid UK driving licence or an ability to access various sites/ patient
- homes across the locality within an efficient time frame.
- Aneffectiveteamworkerwho is empathetic and approachable
- Proactive, with an ability to set up new initiatives.
- Flexible regarding duties and ability to cope with change
- Ability to take ownership and leadership of new projects, national initiatives and service development.
- Ability to work under pressure and to manage crisis and risk management.
- Ability to work within a structured care pathway across two different services.
- RMN/Dip HE/BSc Mental Health Nursing with relevant experience
- RGN/Dip HE/BSc General Nurse with relevant experience
- NMC registration
- Significant relevant experience and/ or evidence of post grad level study in a relevant area
- Evidence of on-going professional development. There is a requirement to ensure that training is undertaken to ensure sufficient knowledge in both physical and mental health needs
Desirable criteria
- Working towards or hold a certificate in
- counselling skills or have extensive counselling experience.
- European Computer Driving Licence
- Clinical Supervisory Skills Course
- Experience of line managing other staff
- Proven relevant experience in working with those who have acute mental health problems.
- Proven experience in assessing the physical/mental health of a patient and associated risk management.
- Proven experience in quality improvement and development of projects.
- Provenexperienceofassessment skills.
- Proven experience of teaching
- Experience of working in/with internal and external agencies including primary care.
- Competence with clients with complex needs, communication issues and/or challenging behaviour
- Varied and comprehensive post-graduate clinical experience across a range of clinical areas.
- Senior level experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of active participation in audit activities
- Experience of dealing with distressed clients, carers or colleagues
- Experience and competence in negotiating and recording aims of treatment and agreeing a plan of action with; client/relatives/carers/medical staff
- Experience of leading and developing new initiatives/ services
- Competence andexperience in
- advancedcommunication skillsincludingnegotiation, motivationalinterviewingand evoking behavioural change in complex cases.
- Experienceofworkingina mental health unit/ ward
- Experience and evidence of developing evidence based literature, guidelines and protocols for a range of more complex needs for a wide range of people e.g. clients with Mental Illness or neurological impairment, carers, general public and healthcare workers
- Perinatal subtypes of diagnosis, knowledge of perinatal care pathway, knowledge of evidence based recommended treatments, knowledge of initiatives within perinatal community, knowledge of assessment of physical risk and evidence base
- Acute Mental Health
- Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Physical health needs Knowledge of Livewell Southwest
- policies to support management of service
- Computer literacy skills, including quick and accurate use of keyboard, presentation of data, word processing, electronic delivery of presentations report writing and internet use to inform practice.
- An ability to be able to use highly developed interpersonal
- and communication skills to impact on the behaviour and views of clients with severely challenging, sometimes life threatening behaviours on a frequent basis
- Ability to undertake a full set of physical observations and respond accordingly.
- Demonstrate a high level of empathy, self-awareness and emotional resilience having to cope with emotionally demanding situations on a frequent basis
- Able to use advanced analytical skills and to concentrate for prolonged periods during emotive and stressful situations.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of time management and organisational skills
- Able to work within codes of practice of NMC policies and procedures
- Highly specialist skills demonstrating varied comprehensive clinical experience in order to deliver best practice for a range of complex conditions.
- Current valid UK driving licence or an ability to access various sites/ patient
- homes across the locality within an efficient time frame.
- Aneffectiveteamworkerwho is empathetic and approachable
- Proactive, with an ability to set up new initiatives.
- Flexible regarding duties and ability to cope with change
- Ability to take ownership and leadership of new projects, national initiatives and service development.
- Ability to work under pressure and to manage crisis and risk management.
- Ability to work within a structured care pathway across two different services.
- RMN/Dip HE/BSc Mental Health Nursing with relevant experience
- RGN/Dip HE/BSc General Nurse with relevant experience
- NMC registration
- Significant relevant experience and/ or evidence of post grad level study in a rele
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Livewell Southwest
Perinatal Clinical Team Manager
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
Are you passionate about improving the lives of women,
babies and families? Livewell Southwest is looking for an inspiring and
motivated leader to manage our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team,
supporting women experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties
during pregnancy and the first postnatal year. This is a unique opportunity to
lead a skilled multidisciplinary team delivering compassionate,
recovery-focused care at a time when positive intervention can make a lifelong
difference.
Main duties of the job
As Team Manager, you will provide leadership,
direction and support to a dedicated team of professionals, ensuring
high-quality, safe and effective services. Working closely with maternity
services, primary care, health visiting, children's services and voluntary
sector partners, you will help shape integrated pathways of care, drive service
improvement and contribute to the ongoing development of specialist perinatal
mental health services across Plymouth.
We are seeking an experienced registered mental
health professional with strong leadership skills, a commitment to excellence
and a passion for developing people and services. In return, you'll join an
ambitious, values-driven organisation where you can influence
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