Job Description

The Perinatal Mental Health Specialist Midwife will:

Support the implementation of effective care pathways for pregnant women and birthing people with mental health conditions at Whittington Health, with a key focus on addressing inequalities in all aspects of care.



Support maternity colleagues in the assessment of risks and vulnerabilities of birthing people with perinatal mental health problems and make relevant and sensitive enquiries to ascertain the need for further action and support (such as liaison with other agencies, onwards referrals, signposting and crisis management, etc)



Act as a an advocate for service users to ensure that plans for women with mental health concerns are communicated to the wider team and that they are followed.



Provide specialist perinatal mental health midwifery care and support that is personalised and responds to individual needs and preferences.



Liaise with a wide range of both statutory and non-statutory agencies to provide packages of care for women and their babies, including assessment, planning, care and evaluation.



Contribute to the development of perinatal mental health guidelines and pathways



Work closely with the North Central London and local maternity voice partnerships (MVP), to better understand the needs of women.



Contribute to teaching of midwives, maternity support workers and MDT



To offer personalised support and education to promote safe parenting and reduce inequity and social exclusion.



Please see the and Person Specification for further details.



Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.



Have competent clinical midwifery skills and ensure appropriate assessment, implementation and evaluation of care is achieved.



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



Be a key change agent for vulnerable women and safeguarding children, as well as participating in service development within the maternity unit.



Ensure that all statutory training associated with the post is undertaken.



The post holder will be required to provide consultative advice to other agencies and to participate in delivering training and development for other professionals



Please see the and Person Specification for further details.