Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner

Band 6

Main area Perinatal Mental Health Practitioner (Cheshire East) Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

Site Beech House Town Macclesfield Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 06/10/2026 23:59

The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women.

The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants. The service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist services.

We are supportive service who offer training in perinatal mental health and a robust supervision model.

We welcome applicants with a core professional qualification such as Nurses, Social Workers, Midwives, Occupational Therapists.

This post is to caseload hold in the Cheshire East patch of our service but there will be some working across the CWP footprint

We will consider applicants who wish to work full time, part time and condensed hours (flexible working).

Manage a defined caseload of women with diagnoses of moderate - severe mental health difficulties in the perinatal period.

Complete initial assessments for women referred into the perinatal service.

To be duty practitioner on a rota basis.

Contribute to MDT meetings to ensure effective plans and interventions can be established for women referred into the perinatal service.

Contribute to the team's engagement with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, women/birthing people and their families, their carers and other statutory and voluntary sector agencies.

Liaise with a wide range of other professionals.

Ensure equality of access to services for all women, paying particular attention to diversity issues and women from hard to reach groups.

Be responsible for planning and co-ordinating own day to day workload in collaboration with the needs of women and their families and the wider needs of the service.

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care, as well as the provision of three GP surgeries in Cheshire.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, Liverpool and Stockport.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We are rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission, with a Good rating overall.

As a Disability Confident Employer, Rainbow Badge Scheme member, Veteran Aware organisation and proud holder of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award, CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible and developing a culture that values differences, and welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
All new starters will commence in post on one fixed start date each month, in line with our Prepare to Care (P2C) induction programme date. P2C offers up to 3 weeks training to support you to meet the induction / initial training requirements of the role.

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