Job overview

The Kingfisher MBU Outreach service offers support to all women who required an admission to the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit, due to moderate to serious mental illness in the perinatal period. The perinatal period is a crucial and vulnerable time for woman. We know as many as one in five women experience post or ante natal depression, anxiety or in some cases severe mental illness such as psychosis during pregnancy or in the first year after childbirth. The purpose of the MBU is to keep the Mother & Baby together, whilst treating the mother’s mental health and promoting or maintaining attachment and bonding.  

The Kingfisher MBU Outreach service aims to support women with the transition from the MBU to the home environment, alongside the woman’s designated community support network. Transition starts already during the admission and continues for up to three months after discharge.

We aim to create a positive and supportive community to promote the mother’s recovery and baby’s development. The long-term benefits of this kind of specialist care offers early help and support to parents for them to build a healthy bond with their children and improves outcomes for the child.

Main duties of the job

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 Perinatal Specialist Nurse for the MBU Outreach Team who is committed to supporting women at a very vulnerable time in their life, to support both Mother and baby for the best possible outcomes.

You will provide individualized support to service users with transitioning from the ward to home environment. To reach this goal, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies and professionals in the community settings.

You will have fundamental skills of risk assessment, care planning, care implementation and evaluation of care with the Mother whilst also working alongside the nursery nurses to ensure safe care of baby.

You may be responsible for the supervision of junior staff and will receive support to learn how to gatekeep and triage our referrals and we encourage our staff to consider development opportunities.

Working for our organisation

The Perinatal service can offer training, building upon the skills you have to make you a Perinatal Specialist, if you are not one already.

We value to importance of professional progression and actively strive to create growth opportunities within our team. You will be encouraged to engage in supervision and annual appraisal to map your professional development plan. This year to date we have invested significantly in our team to support professional progression and passions.

We believe that staff, who feel valued by their employers and are truly engaged, and able to provide better outcomes for our service users.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more