Position Overview & Specifications

These posts will deliver specialist Perinatal Services in Pennine Lancashire. The specialist Perinatal Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is an exciting new service development for the whole of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The SPCMHT aspires to provide an excellent comprehensive Perinatal Mental Health Service for the women of Lancashire and South Cumbria. We deliver a sustainable and resilient solution for women suffering from a mental illness in the perinatal period by focusing on improving outcomes for them, their infant and their families. We do this by effective multidisciplinary integrated team working and ensuring effective prevention that responds to local need by:

o Intervening earlier to at preconception, during pregnancy and up to 1 year following deliveryo On-going training of professionals from multiple disciplineso Improving pathways and processes for mothers, their families and professionalso Delivering a multi-disciplinary specialist perinatal mental health service to woman who present with severe/complex mental health needs, in accordance with CR197 staffing recommendations and delivery of NICE recommended intervention.

The Specialist Perinatal CMHT is one team, made up of three hubs, Central and west Lancashire, North Lancashire/South Cumbria and Pennine Lancashire.