Inpatient Perinatal Nursery NurseNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced Nursery Nurse looking for a new opportunity in a rewarding, growing service? The Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unithere at NSFT s seeking a motivated Nursery Nurse to join our existing team

As a Nursery Nurse, you will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team providing quality services for patients who are admitted to the Kingfisher Mother and Baby Unit, under the supervision of a registered professional.

Your role will be to assist mothers with perinatal mental health problems to care for their babies, ensure that the emotional and physical needs of the babies are met and engage in activities to promote the mother-infant relationship.

As a team, we are all committed to making a difference to the lives of our service users, their babies, and families in the antenatal period and for up to two years following birth.

Main duties of the job

The Kingfisher Mother and Unit provides inpatient care for the management of mental health problems that complicate pregnancy and the postpartum year. We work closely with other mental health services, jointly supporting women.

The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment-based approaches to mothers and infants. The successful candidate will:

• Provide perinatal support to antenatal and post-natal mothers in an inpatient setting, promoting and modelling a high standard of care at all times within the birth to five framework.
• Participate in the assessment of needs, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care plan for mothers and their babies.
• Understanding the stages of development, assisting when difficulties are experienced and empowering families to be confident in their parenting and care.
• To be part of the multi-disciplinary team utilising skills and knowledge in supporting and advising mums across all domains of caring for their baby.
• To maintain confidentiality and adhere to local policies at all times in line with Trust Policy.

If this sounds like a challenge you'd enjoy, we'd love to hear from you...

Job description

For a full list of role requirements, please see the attached job description and person specification.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.