Perinatal Community Occupational Therapist- Band 6

Full time, permanent role-Trust wide

Are you passionate about ensuring that women and baby have access to high quality and evidence-based mental health and psychological care?

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Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Maternal mental health is a life-saving, crucial and growing area of practice attracting new funding and bringing together some of the most passionate and skilled health professionals in the NHS. 10% of women develop a mental health problem during pregnancy or within the immediate period after the birth of their baby and untreated can have a devastating impact on the women affected and their families. In the UK, mental health in pregnant and post-natal women has previously often gone unrecognised, undiagnosed and untreated.

About us

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust's national award winning specialist perinatal mental health service work is a multidisciplinary team that is meeting the specific needs of ante and perinatal women with a high quality multi-disciplinary service and linking with the full range of health and social care professionals including GPs, health visitors and midwives as well as gynaecology, obstetrics ETC

The service is a dynamic, exciting collaboration across three commissioning groups and three maternity hospitals and a range of community settings, recently winning another wave of funding by NHS England to further enhance and expand services provided to women and their families.

Job description Job responsibilities

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification
• Current unrestricted registration with HCPC
• Specialist knowledge across a range of procedures and theory
• Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma
• Relevant training and experience specialist short courses
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Knowledge and skills Essential

• Excellent written communication skills
• Effective organisational and delegation skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply problem solving skills to a variety of situations

Experience Essential

• Substantial experience in a Mental health care setting
• Substantial experience in a Mental health care setting
• Recent experience working as an autonomous practitioner
• Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management/giving diagnosis
• Demonstrate recent understanding/experience of medication usage/issues with people who are pregnant

Other Essential

• Flexible working
• Car driver/owner

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