Perinatal Duty Practitioner

Perinatal Duty Practitioner

The closing date is 15 March 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with relevant experience in community mental health to join the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Perinatal Mental Health Service.

The Hampshire, Frimley and Isle of Wight Perinatal Mental Health Service is a well established and pioneering specialist service consisting of an expert multidisciplinary community team and a mother and baby inpatient unit. The service is also an early implementer site for Maternity Mental Health Services, broadening the remit and profile of specialist interventions available for women/birthing people and ensuring an enhanced care pathway.

The Perinatal Community Team provides a specialist community service for the assessment and treatment of women with severe mental health problems in pregnancy and up to 2 years postnatal.

• Work within the duty team and brief intervention pathway to provide timely assessment and contact to patients referred to the service via video and telephone calls.
• Provide support as part of the Brief Intervention pathway to identify and deliver brief perinatal interventions to patients with low risk, non‑complex perinatal illness.
• Collaborate closely with the duty team, wider multidisciplinary team, psychology and medical staff to deliver high quality care and experience across the duty pathway.
• Coordinate joint working with outside organisations to ensure robust collaboration where needed.

The team base is at Southern House in Otterbourne, near Winchester, but the service covers all of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, meaning the duty function also covers all areas of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire.

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) qualification or Diploma/degree in Occupational Therapy or Certificate or Diploma/degree in Social Work.
• Drivers licence and suitable transport to carry out community nursing within a rural and urban geographical area. Full driving licence if using own vehicle.
• Experience or interest in perinatal mental health.

Car Driver is essential. Hybrid working is possible.

Flexible working – all requests for flexible working options can be discussed during the interview process.

We deliver extensive physical health services and value compassionate, accountable, respectful and excellent care – all guided by our CARE values.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined‑up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community‑based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person’s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams to hospitals at home, and our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. We are committed to accessible and inclusive recruitment. If you are concerned that a person specification may prevent or restrict your application due to unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion or disability, please contact the Trust’s Recruitment team – detailed in the advert.

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to discuss flexible working. All requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£38,682 to £46,580 a year for full‑time hours.