Perinatal Social Worker

An exciting opportunity has arisen to employ a motivated and creative and experienced Mental Health Social Workers, who may be looking for a chance to demonstrate their extensive skills and develop specialist skills and knowledge with perinatal psychiatry. The role of:

This is an innovative award winning service delivering new models of care within WLMHT.

The positions are 1 full-time Social Worker working in the Ealing Perinatal Service.

The fulltime post will be based primarily at St. Bernard’s Hospital where our Ealing Perinatal team are based but will work on the Tri-Borough duty rota providing rota cover to Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital and Queen Mary’s Maternity unit.

This would be an ideal opportunity for an excellent well experience Band 6/Grade 10 and above Social worker with excellent assessment skills to work in an area and a developmental role in a specialist field.

We would support the successful candidate to develop a bespoke training programme to facilitate their development within the post.

Main task and duties includes:

• Ensure that women (regardless of age) who are pregnant and booked for delivery and/or have infants up to a year old receive appropriate screening, assessment and identification of their mental health needs and are these are managed using evidence based interventions throughout this period
• Actively liaise with primary care, maternity and health visiting staff as well as other mental health services regarding referrals, care co-ordination, transfer of care including facilitating professionals’ meetings
• Efficiently manage caseload of up to 25 (Fulltime)/15 (part time) women (antenatal and postnatal) with complex mental health needs, by providing assessments and reviews in community sites (children centres), joint reviews with maternity, health visitor or other mental health professionals, home visits and care planning meetings

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.

Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.

We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.

We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.

We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.

For further information on the job please see attached Candidate Pack.

For an informal discussion and further information please contact Michelle Neils-James (Team Manager) on 07719988685 or, Karen Lad (Deputy Team Manager) on 07523937340 or Althea Rowe (Specialist Perinatal Social Worker) on 07710759839