Job overview

We are seeking an experienced Midwife with a passion for Perinatal Mental Health to join our specialist team as a Band 6 Perinatal Mental Health Midwife.

Working closely with the Perinatal Mental Health Specialist Lead Midwife, you will play a key role in supporting women, birthing people and their families experiencing mental health difficulties during pregnancy and the postnatal period. You will provide specialist assessment, support and care coordination, helping to ensure women receive safe, compassionate and personalised care throughout their maternity journey.

This is an exciting opportunity for a compassionate band 6 midwife to contribute to the continued development of a growing specialist service in an area recognised locally and nationally as a key priority within maternity care.

Main duties of the job

As a Perinatal Mental Health Midwife, you will:

• Provide specialist support, assessment and care planning for women experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties.
• Deliver emotional, psychological and practical support to women and their families.
• Undertake comprehensive mental health and risk assessments and contribute to care planning and review.
• Work collaboratively with maternity, neonatal, mental health, safeguarding and community services to provide seamless care.
• Act as a specialist resource for maternity and neonatal colleagues, offering advice and support on perinatal mental health issues.
• Support the delivery of perinatal mental health education and training across the Women's and Children's Division.
• Participate in multidisciplinary and multi-agency meetings to ensure coordinated, person-centred care.
• Contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit and implementation of best practice.

Working for our organisation

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?