Care Coordinator - Community Perinatal Mental Health Team
Full time - 37.5 hours - 2 posts
Permanent post
Specialist Mother & Baby Mental Health Service (SMABS) is a community perinatal mental health service commissioned with the Bradford District Care Foundation Trust (BDCFT). We cover the catchment area of Bradford, Airedale and Craven there are approximately 8,000 live births per year. The main maternity hospital sites being Bradford (6,000 births) and Airedale (2,000 births).
We are currently looking to recruit experienced and highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health professional/practitioner to join our team with a specialist interest in improving care for women & their families in the area. Experience of working in the Perinatal Mental Health field is desirable; a keen interest in this specialist area is essential.
The Specialist Mother & Baby Mental Health Service (SMABS) provides mental health care & treatment for women and their families during pregnancy till first year post delivery. The SMABS is a multi-disciplinary team, which provides support for women who are experiencing moderate to severe mental ill health in pregnancy or present with a high risk of relapse during pregnancy & the perinatal period. The practitioners provide care co-ordination, assessments & there is also a duty service which provides advice, information and signposting regarding perinatal mental health. Duty also will complete a holistic triage for referrals coming into the service.
To be part of SMABS team and provide specialist assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions to women experiencing perinatal mental health ill health across Bradford & Airedale & Craven, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
To work within the specialist multi disciplinary team and network and contribute to all elements of service delivery.
Assess the impact of a parent's mental ill-health on baby and older siblings within the individual household, notifying relevant agencies of concerns if appropriate.
To work in a sensitive and attuned way with women, infants, partners and wider families that enable containment during highly emotive transition period in parental lives; to delicately balance the needs and wellbeing of the women whilst simultaneously ensuring infant health, wellbeing and safety is paramount and centred in all care delivery.
Work in a recovery and inclusive way to support women, infants, and families to achieve good mental health outcomes within the perinatal period.
To create robust risk management plans in line with the organisational and local policy/guidelines and CPA framework.
The Perinatal community mental health clinician/care co-ordinator will attend, participate and in some cases lead clinical/patient related meetings such as professionals meetings, CPA, and MDT.
To support the supervision of the MDT.
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