Perinatal Senior Community Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 08/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a compassionate and motivated Senior Perinatal Community Practitioner to join the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. You will provide specialist assessment, intervention, and support for women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and up to the baby's first year. The role involves working collaboratively with families and other services, contributing to service development, and promoting best practice. Travel across the Trust footprint is required.
Key responsibilities
- Undertaking specialist assessments.
- Developing, implementing, and reviewing evidence-based care plans.
- Delivering specialist therapeutic interventions and coordinating care within a community setting.
- Providing consultation, advice, and support to professionals across various services.
- Working collaboratively with women, birthing people, families, carers, and partner agencies.
- Contributing to safeguarding processes and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of service users, infants, and families.
Essential criteria
- Current registration with an approved professional body
- Evidence of continued professional development
- For registered nurses: MIP, FLIP, ENB 998 Teaching & Assessing in Clinical Practice or City & Guilds 730 Teaching in Adult Education. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework (at point of application)
- Recognised sign-off mentor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a care environment.
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
- Mentoring or facilitating students on practice placement
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Quality improvement activities
- Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients inthe designated field.
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
- Care Programme Approach and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of safeguarding and its application in practice
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
- Research and development methodology.
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
- Provide leadership and monitor, co-ordinate and prioritise the activities of a team.
- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake lead professional / care co-ordinator responsibilities
- Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice.
- Write reports.
- Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings.
- Use approved breakaway techniques.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership or management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
- Leadership or management experience
- Significant experience working with people with mental ill health in a community environment
- The Trust's Quality Improvement System (QIS)
- Competency in venepuncture
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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Perinatal Senior Community Practitioner
The closing date is 08 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about supporting women, birthing people, and families during the perinatal period? Do you have the clinical expertise and leadership skills to help deliver high-quality perinatal mental health care? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Senior Perinatal Community Practitioner to join our Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team. Based primarily within the York and Selby locality, you will provide specialist assessment, intervention, and support for women and birthing people experiencing moderate to severe mental health difficulties during pregnancy and up to the baby's first year.
As a senior team member, you will work closely with families, maternity services, primary care, and partner agencies to deliver person-centred care. You will also contribute to service development, promote best practice, and support colleagues in providing excellent care.
Although mainly based in York and Selby, the role requires travel across the Trust footprint to support service delivery, attend meetings, training, and development opportunities.
We are committed to staff development and offer access to specialist perinatal mental health training, leadership programmes, and ongoing profess
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