Community Perinatal Nursery Nurse

We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated Band 4 Nursery Nurse working 22.5 hours per week (0.6wte) to join us at this very exciting time, working across our community perinatal teams in West Devon. We have Nursery Nurse offer embedded in the service and you will work alongside our nursery nurse lead and other nursery nurses in other teams.

Having just secured additional funding, the Community Perinatal Service will be going through an exciting period of expansion in order to meet the commitments of the NHS Long Term Plan. We are commissioned to work with women/birthing people pre-conceptually, in pregnancy and postnatally where there are mental health concerns.

This service development will not only create valuable interventions for women/birthing people and families, but will also offer valuable opportunities for career progression to staff within a variety of professional groups.

We are seeking an individual who is open to learning & developing their skills in perinatal mental health and we are committed to supporting them by offering a comprehensive induction with ongoing support, supervision and professional development from our established and passionate MDT.

The Community Nursery Nurse must have knowledge of UNICEF infant feeding and nutrition in the early years and to have a thorough understanding of working alongside mothers and infants during the Perinatal period with mental health illness.

The Perinatal Community Service has four community teams all based in antenatal clinics and community mental health bases across Devon including - Exeter, Torbay, Tavistock and Barnstaple.Our teams are multi-disciplinary and are made up of Consultant Psychiatrists, Mental Health Nurses, Social Workers, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Nursery Nurses. We work closely with Specialist and Public Health Midwives, Parent Infant Specialists and Health Visitors.

The core purpose of the service 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 within the specialist perinatal community mental health teams in Devon.

The Nursery Nurse will assist mothers with perinatal mental health problems to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of the babies are met and engage in activities to promote the parent-infant relationship.

The Nursery Nurse will demonstrate and role model a sound knowledge of caring effectively for infants under 2 years and use this to teach and guide colleagues whilst ensuring that current practice and care in the perinatal service meets the standards as outlined in the Trusts Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children Policy, alongside the Devon County Council Child Protection Procedures and to be able to involve specialist safeguarding services as and when necessary.