Band 7 Perinatal Infant Mental Health Specialist

The BSW Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service is looking for a Perinatal Infant Mental Health Specialist to join our team, covering the BaNES, Swindon, and Wiltshire (BSW) area. The team is multidisciplinary, providing support for women who experience serious mental health problems or present with a high risk of relapse during pregnancy and the postnatal period. We offer assessment and treatment aimed at addressing mental ill health and enhancing the mother-infant relationship where mental health needs have impacted this.

We provide multi-agency training in perinatal mental health to other professionals and agencies working with women in the perinatal period, in addition to offering consultation and advice. Currently, the team works alongside women and their families from pregnancy until their infant's first birthday, the role of the Perinatal Infant Mental Health Specialist (PIMHS) is to provide specialist parent-infant assessment, interventions, and supervision within the Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Service, with the aim of:

• Providing early identification, intervention, and health promotion regarding infant/early years' mental health
• Facilitating access to specialist/core CAMHS
• Developing and coordinating training on issues relating to infant mental health
• Providing supervision to Nursery Nurses and other MDT staff
• Delivering parent-infant interventions within the service
• Ensuring the voice of the infant is central to care delivery and service development

The post-holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team and will contribute to service development from an infant mental health perspective to meet the needs of a population with wide social and cultural diversity.

This post is suitable for experienced and professionally registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, or Clinical Psychologists, with additional postgraduate training in infant mental health or other equivalent qualifications. You must also have experience of working with women in the perinatal period.

We are actively encouraging applicants from all backgrounds. We are particularly keen to receive applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community.