Perinatal Team Manager Epsom
Job description
Do you aspire to change people’s lives for the better? Would you like to work flexibly in a highly regarded team who strive to provide high quality care primarily to mothers, alongside their babies and partners ensuring women experience positive mental health during pregnancy and postnatally? We offer excellent training and development opportunities to enable you to work in this specialism, including perinatal conferences, simulation training, post graduate opportunities and regular internal training. We are looking for a motivated and skilled mental health professional to be responsible for providing high quality mental health care within the perinatal service, by ensuring relevant clinical supervision is provided to staff, standards of service provision are set, monitored, and maintained and that the women who use the service are involved in the service in the way they wish to be. To be responsible for the day-to-day management of the team, ensuring safe and effective delivery of care. To ensure effective daily management of referrals, including appropriate triage and assessment within specified timescales across the service. To ensure appropriate response to emergency referrals, supporting referrals within the acute care pathway and liaising with services involved including HTT, inpatient services and MBU. Supervise junior qualified and non-qualified staff in the team, including performance management. Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby. Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received. Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments. We look forward to receiving your application! Please find attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about the role and responsibilities.
