Senior Perinatal Nursing Practitioner

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 care across perinatal mental health pathways.

The post holder will play a key leadership role within the service, providing clinical supervision, line management, and professional support to a small specialist multidisciplinary team, including Perinatal Peer Support Workers. Experience of working alongside, supervising, or supporting Peer Support Workers and embedding lived experience within service delivery would be advantageous.

The role also includes responsibility for service development, quality improvement initiatives, and maintaining effective partnerships with community mental health services and wider agencies across North Central and East London, ensuring seamless care coordination and integrated support for women and their families throughout the perinatal period.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification for full details outlining the roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential

• 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

• Leadership/Management Training

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience in supporting Peer Support Workers

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Knowledge of implementing strategy, change management and practice development