Specialist Perinatal Service Inpatient Nursery Nurse

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Specialist Perinatal Service (SPS) Inpatient Nursery Nurse will hold a key role in providing expert child assessments, interventions, and acute support for families and infants under one year old, who are under the care of the Inpatient Psychiatric Mother and Baby Unit.

The SPS supports women and birthing people who experience high-risk mental health problems during and after pregnancy, and for their infant up to the age of one year.

This post is based in Andersen at Loweswater Ward. Andersen Ward is based in Wythenshawe, however due to ongoing repairs we are temporarily based at Loweswater Ward at GMMH headquarters in Prestwich.

Main duties of the job

As a SPS Inpatient Nursery Nurse you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team collaborating with many professionals and organisations to provide high quality care to families across Greater Manchester including:

  • Child and Family Social Workers,
  • Health visitors,
  • Midwives
  • Parent-Infant Mental Health specialists

Key elements of this role include:

  • Contributing to structured assessment of parent-infant interaction
  • Provide feedback to the MDT based on observations
  • Develop and facilitate therapeutic group actives (i.e., baby massage, rhyme, and sign)
  • Deliver packages of care in collaboration with families as part of an individualised baby care plan.
  • Contributing to and supporting families with targeted interventions.
  • Incorporate evidence based practice drawn from the field of both perinatal and more general child care related knowledge into the assessment, planning and implementation of care

 

You will need to be motivated to work in an environment of change and innovation.

Have a good understanding of the signs of abuse and neglect and a knowledge of safeguarding in line with policies and procedures.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • NNEB Diploma in Childcare, BTEC or equivalent childcare qualification National vocational qualification – 3 or 4 in childcare

Desirable

  • Experience of working with women and families in the Perinatal period
  • Experience of working in Mental Health
  • Multi-disciplinary team working

Experience

Desirable

  • Understanding of attachment theory, Previous Community Experience, Specialist interest in PMH

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).

Closing Date: 19 July 2026

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