Senior Perinatal Nursing Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves leading and developing a clinical peer support service within the NCEL Provider Collaborative's in-reach/outreach service from the East London Mother & Baby Unit. The post holder will provide highly specialist, evidence-based perinatal mental health care to women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum, focusing on complex mental health, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs. It combines advanced clinical practice, risk assessment, multi-agency collaboration, and clinical leadership to ensure safe, compassionate, recovery-focused care. The role also includes service development, quality improvement, and maintaining partnerships for seamless care coordination.
Essential criteria
- o Registered Mental Health Nurse
- oMasters qualification or equivalent experience
- oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/Management Training
- Working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- Significant experience of management and leadership roles at band 6 level or above
- Supporting and supervising students and junior staff including recognising and managing stress in others
- Perinatal Mental Health Experience
- Undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
- Experience in supporting Peer Support Workers
- Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Mitigating and reducing clinical risk
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services
- Knowledge of implementing strategy, change management and practice development
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
- o Registered Mental Health Nurse
- oMasters qualification or equivalent experience
- oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
- Leadership/Management Training
- Working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context
- Significant experience of management and leadership roles at band 6 level or above
- Supporting and supervising students and junior staff including recognising and managing stress in others
- Perinatal Mental Health Experience
- Undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
- Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
- Experience in supporting Peer Support Workers
- Knowledge & Skills
- Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
- Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health
- Mitigating and reducing clinical risk
- Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services
- Knowledge of implementing strategy, change management and practice development
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
NCEL Provider Collaborative are developing a pilot in-reach/outreach service from the East London Mother & Baby Unit (MBU).
We are looking for a dynamic leader who can both support and develop clinical peer support service across multiple agencies and teams and scope the future requirements of a full in-reach/outreach model.
This post is fully clinically supported by the Matron for the MBU and by the NCEL commissioning personnel in relation to service development.
The post holder will provide highly specialist, evidence-based perinatal mental health care to women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum who have previously been inpatients on the East London Mother & Baby Unit, including those with complex mental health, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs.
Main duties of the job
The role combines advanced clinical practice, comprehensive risk assessment and management, multi-agency collaboration, and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care for mothers, infants, and families.
Working autonomously with complex and high-risk presentations, the post holder will provide specialist consultation, guidance, and support across acute inpatient and community services. They will contribute to admission prevention, facilitate timely and effective discharge planning, and promote continuity of
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