Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visitor
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-4161
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Highbury Grange Health Centre
- Town
- Islington
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Health Visitor: Perinatal Mental Health
Band 7
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Job overview
Our Bright Start Islington Integrated Service has a Health Visitor Clinical Lead Vacancy for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health.
This exciting post involves working as a senior Health Visitor in one of our integrated teams. As well as working as a Clinical Lead Health Visitor approximately twice a month focussing on aspects of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health This role is a fantastic development opportunity which will enable you to get involved to shape and deliver on the family hub best start in life local plan.
The role supports the assessment and identification of perinatal mental health and parent infant relationship needs within universal services, helping practitioners to appropriately support families and refer to relevant services where needed, whilst continuing to work collaboratively with specialist teams involved in a family’s care.
This includes supporting the delivery of Emotional Wellbeing Visits, Newborn Behavioural Observations, audit activity, and training in relation to the baby brain, infant mental health, and parental mental health. The post holder will provide clinical expertise to staff, parents, and partner agencies within Bright Start services.
The post holder will also support the Perinatal Mental Health and Parent Infant Relationship workstream as part of the Best Start in Life Family Hubs programme.
We are interested in your aspirations and supporting your career development, so please do make contact if interested.
Main duties of the job
1. To demonstrate a commitment to best practice in all aspects of child development and work with Bright Start Early Years Teams and other partners to embed the best practice in Islington, and Whittington Health as a whole.
2 . To demonstrate and develop evidence-based knowledge, attitudes and skills to be able to
be an expert resource for Bright Start teams, in particular in the area of Perinatal Mental
Health and Parent-Infant Relationships
3 . To assess local need and to plan, coordinate and deliver training programmes and workshops to Bright Start staff, and others as appropriate, to promote best practice standards
in all aspects of Perinatal Mental Health.
4 . To work with other specialist colleagues such as the Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team, Parent and Baby Psychology Service and Early Years to develop integrated protocols which support the Perinatal Mental Health Strategy.
5. To provide expertise and support to Family Health Advisors and Health Visitors working with families.
6 . To take a lead role in working with the Islington Family Hubs Perinatal Mental Health and Parent and Infant Relationship support action plan which includes reviewing the PNMH Pathway and on evidencing outcomes from PNMH interventions.
8. To work to develop integrated pathways with key partners such as, midwifery, CAMHS, Early Years settings and School Health Service.
11. To be responsible for the delivery of Healthy Child programme within the Bright Start area.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Health Visiting/Midwife/Registered Nurse Professional Qualification, with entry onto the 3rd part of the NMC Register
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Perinatal mental health training
Desirable criteria
- Leadership modules (L6/7)
- IHV Emotional Well Being training
- Parenting Programme facilitator course
- Newborn observation training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Willingness to lead and support management of change.
- Excellent communication skills: IT written and oral.
- High levels of clinical skills, with the ability to identify, respond to and evaluate health needs, including the delivery of public health programmes.
- Evidence of application of high levels of knowledge and skills relating to emotional and physical wellbeing during the perinatal period.
- Evidence of application of high levels of knowledge and skills relating to the issues and concerns experienced during the Perinatal period.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Protocols and guidance regarding PNMH interventions.
- Knowledge of how to structure and deliver a training programme at all staff levels.
- Knowledge on how to apply audit and Quality Improvement methodology.
- Knowledge and skills in managing change at an operational level.
- Knowledge and skills of co-production.
- Understanding of the safeguarding process and child protection procedures, clinical governance arrangements and the ability to make decisions in these areas.
- Ability to manage other members of staff and delegate work appropriately and safely.
- Knowledge of current legislation and national guidance relating to all aspects of the Healthy Child Programme.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Ability to work as part of an integrated team working across organisational and professional boundaries.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Commitment to the development of excellent services, which focus on improved outcomes for children.
- Awareness of Equal Opportunities and valuing diversity.
- Ability to set personal and team objectives and manage time, priorities and stressful situations.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Pooja Shah
- Job title
- Locality Manager- Bright start central.
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07785954454
- Additional information
Emily Baldwin- Specialist Health Visitor for Transition to Parenthood.Tel: 07825976842/ [email protected]
Tayyiba Cousins- Team leader for Highbury Grange health visiting team. Email: [email protected]
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