Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Perinatal Psychiatry

Job overview

Perinatal mental health services underwent a time of huge expansion nationally. Locally this has led to the development of a comprehensive perinatal mental health service for South Birmingham during Wave 1 of national funding. Wave 2 of this nationally funding has led to the creation of comprehensive services covering the Black Country and West Birmingham and the North & East Birmingham and Solihull. All teams are multi-disciplinary and comprise of specialist practitioners from relevant disciplines – psychology, nursing, OT, nursery nurses. These new teams work alongside the well-established existing 10 bedded inpatient Mother and Baby Unit and its inreach/outreach team, which accepts referrals from across the country. The Mother and Baby Unit is now commissioned by the newly-formed West Midlands Perinatal Provider Collaborative.

An important aspect of this post will be supporting the continued development of perinatal mental health community teams.

We are seeking to recruit a consultant psychiatrist who will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the West Birmingham area for 5 PAs per week for a fixed term period of 1 year.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the West Birmingham area.

The postholder and the other consultants for Birmingham will provide reciprocal cover for the community team during the working week, as well as for the inpatient MBU.

A considerable amount of multi-agency work is envisaged with the post-holder working with relevant key agencies including Child Protection teams, Health Visiting Services and Public Health colleagues from the Local Authorities, close working with professionals at maternity hospitals, primary care – including IAPT workers, GPs and Children’s Centres, and collaboration with the voluntary sector. Training and advice for linked agencies will be an important role of the postholder.

Collaboration with other agencies including maternity services, health visitors and GPs with which women will come into contact during their pregnancy and post-natal period is an integral part of the role, with timely and appropriate information sharing between agencies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details of the roles and responsibilities of this post.

If you have any questions or would like to arrange to visit the service, please contact:

Dr Nilushi Ratnayaka Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrist West Birmingham team

Dr Jelena Jankovic, Lead perinatal consultant, [email protected]

Dr Manny Bagary, Clinical Director, [email protected]