Perinatal Team Manager

Job summary

Are you passionate about the perinatal period? Are you a Nurse or AHP? Do you possess the leadership skills to drive positive change in the dynamic and developing field of perinatal mental health? If so, we invite you to embark on a rewarding journey with CPFT as a Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager.

At CPFT, we recognise the critical importance of mental health during the perinatal period, and we are committed to providing outstanding care and support to mothers and their families. As a Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager, you'll have the opportunity to lead a dedicated team of professionals in delivering essential services to those who need it most.

This role is not just a job; it's a chance to make a lasting impact on the lives of mothers, babies, and families across our community. If you're ready to lead, innovate, and collaborate in a dynamic healthcare environment, join us in our mission to promote perinatal mental health and build healthier futures for all.

Main duties of the job

The Perinatal Team Manager is responsible for leading and managing a multidisciplinary perinatal mental health service, ensuring the provision of accessible, compassionate, and recovery-focused care.

The role involves overseeing service delivery, staff supervision and development, quality improvement, risk management, safeguarding processes, and collaborative working with maternity, health visiting, social care, and wider community services to improve maternal mental health and infant wellbeing.

The post holder will provide professional leadership and contribute to complex clinical decision-making, supporting staff in the assessment and management of risk, care planning, and the delivery of evidence-based interventions to ensure safe and effective outcomes for women, babies, and families.

You will support the evolving team by ensuring that operational policies are adjusted and aligned to service transformation, and that innovative practice is robustly implemented, and you will be expected to maintain a visible, professional presence providing staff with assistance, advice, and support.

The role will also include management of human and budgetary resources, ensuring evidence-based practice within the service as well as evident ability to co-ordinate varying tasks in care delivery and manage any unplanned challenges.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead fulfilling lives.

Our clinical teams deliver a wide range of NHS services across inpatient, primary care and community settings, including children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, and research and development.

To achieve our goals, we recruit high calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from all sections of the community, particularly under represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

All appointments are subject to the successful completion of a probationary period.

Please note we reserve the right to close adverts early should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all roles. If you apply for a post that does not attract sponsorship, your application will be withdrawn from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at https://www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

To provide operational management and support the clinical leadership across the Perinatal Mental Health Service.

To contribute to, quality improvement and problem solving across the clinical pathways.

Ensure clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all of the clinical activity.

Ensure that staff are appropriately skilled and trained to deliver the service and to provide supervision.

Ensure satisfactory supervision arrangements are in place for all elements of service delivery.

Clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all of the clinical activity.

Support and undertake risk formulation and risk management for individual clients and to assist and advise other professions on perinatal aspects of risk assessment, and risk management in line with Trust and inter-agency policies and procedures, including work with clients deemed as vulnerable adults.

To support the structure of clinical supervision in the service of clients with complex perinatal needs, enabling other members of the service to support and direct them to the appropriate place in the care pathway.

Monitor and evaluate the standard of care and take actions to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained.

Identify and be responsive to the diverse cultural, social, and spiritual needs of all patients.

Work flexibly to ensure cover across all teams. To provide clinical interventions and assessments depending on service need.

This post is predominately Monday Friday 9am 5pm but there may be times when flexibility is expected in line with role and responsibility. The service operates countywide and includes the Perinatal Trauma & Loss Service.

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Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC or NMC Professionals Registration
• SSSA/Mentor qualification/ ENB 998 or equivalent.

Desirable

• Evidence of continued personal and professional development.
• Leadership Training
• Teaching/Coaching experience

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience in working with people with mental health needs in the perinatal period.
• Evidence of experience in service evaluation and improvements.
• Experience of collaborative working with, and understanding of the roles of midwifery and health visiting.

Desirable

• Quality Improvement training and project management experience
• Experience of delivering supervision

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
• Competent IT skills including word, outlook, excel and power point.
• Ability to manage change and deal with conflict / stressful situations.
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively, meeting expected deadlines.

Desirable

• Demonstrated experience of investigating SI's/complaints

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Experience of leadership and managing teams.
• Specialist knowledge of person-centred care and its application.
• Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults during the perinatal period.
• Advanced understanding of the development of infants during the perinatal period, and impact of maternal mental health

Desirable

• Knowledge of service improvement models and its application.
• Knowledge of leadership theories.

Other

Essential

• Ability to foster good interagency working.
• Ability to travel independently around Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.