About this role
Job summary
NCEL Provider Collaborative are developing a pilot in-reach/outreach service from the East London Mother & Baby Unit (MBU).
We are looking for a dynamic leader who can both support and develop clinical peer support service across multiple agencies and teams and scope the future requirements of a full in-reach/outreach model.
This post is fully clinically supported by the Matron for the MBU and by the NCEL commissioning personnel in relation to service development.
The post holder will provide highly specialist, evidence-based perinatal mental health care to women during pregnancy and up to one year postpartum who have previously been inpatients on the East London Mother & Baby Unit, including those with complex mental health, safeguarding, and psychosocial needs.
Main duties of the job
The role combines advanced clinical practice, comprehensive risk assessment and management, multi-agency collaboration, and clinical leadership, ensuring the delivery of safe, compassionate, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care for mothers, infants, and families.
Working autonomously with complex and high-risk presentations, the post holder will provide specialist consultation, guidance, and support across acute inpatient and community services. They will contribute to admission prevention, facilitate timely and effective discharge planning, and promote continuity of care across perinatal mental health pathways.
The post holder will play a key leadership role within the service, providing clinical supervision, line management, and professional support to a small specialist multidisciplinary team, including Perinatal Peer Support Workers. Experience of working alongside, supervising, or supporting Peer Support Workers and embedding lived experience within service delivery would be advantageous.
The role also includes responsibility for service development, quality improvement initiatives, and maintaining effective partnerships with community mental health services and wider agencies across North Central and East London, ensuring seamless care coordination and integrated support for women and their families throughout the perinatal period.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification for full details outlining the roles and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training Essential
o Registered Mental Health Nurse oMasters qualification or equivalent experience oEvidence of continuing professional development including recently in perinatal mental health practice and safeguarding children practice
Desirable
Leadership/Management Training
Experience Essential
Working in a complex multi-disciplinary/ multi-agency context Significant experience of management and leadership roles at band 6 level or above Supporting and supervising students and junior staff including recognising and managing stress in others Perinatal Mental Health Experience Undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments Working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
Desirable
Experience in supporting Peer Support Workers
Knowledge & Skills Essential
Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal mental health Mitigating and reducing clinical risk Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal mental health services
Desirable
Knowledge of implementing strategy, change management and practice development
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East London NHS Foundation Trust
Address East London Mother & Baby Unit
City & Hackney Centre for Mental Health, Homerton Row
London
E9 6SR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)