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Job Title: Perinatal Specialist in MHS 

Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: No 

Salary Range: £66,422.64  to £71,038.46 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Full time/Part Time: Full Time 

Term Time only post: No 

Advert Closing Date: 23/02/2026 

Job Overview

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Perinatal Mental Health Nurse to join our specialist perinatal mental health service in Jersey. This role focuses on supporting women during pregnancy and up to two years postnatally who are experiencing moderate to several mental health difficulties.

You will work as part of a skilled and enthusiastic multidisciplinary team, providing evidence-based assessment, care planning, and therapeutic interventions, while promoting recovery, safeguarding infants, and supporting families during this critical period. You will be a motivated and empathetic nurse with a strong interest or background in perinatal mental health.

For further information, or an informal discussion, please contact  Becky Brawley B.Brawley@health.gov.je or Portia Shambare - p.shambare@health.gov.je

Job Purpose

The post holder will work as part of a dedicated team carrying out assessments and interventions with expectant and new mothers up until the infant’s second birthday. This is an autonomous role, involving multidisciplinary and multiagency working. It requires specialist knowledge and skills through your qualification in mental health nursing and additional proven experience or interest in perinatal mental health.

 

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Job Specific Outcomes

  1. Receiving and scrutinising appropriateness of referrals
  2. Using excellent interpersonal skills, ability to listen to others’ views, respecting and valuing individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds
  3. Using excellent safeguarding knowledge and skills to protect the safety and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults on your caseload
  4. Carrying out holistic, compassionate assessments in the community with expectant mothers and those with infants up to 2 years
  5. Liaising and working positively with members of the team, other teams within the department, and partner organisations. Working collaboratively with colleagues to empower service users and carers, maximise service user independence, and ensure the protection of islanders’ human rights
  6. Recognising and addressing concerns about the physical health needs of service users, and how they interact with the service users’ mental health needs
  7. To be personally responsible and professionally accountable for your own caseload, and to cover colleagues’ cases with the same level of responsibility when needed
  8. Takes responsibility for own continuing professional development
  9. Mentors and supports students and junior members of staff as and when required.

 

Jersey Public Service Careers

 

Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunities—working with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.

 

To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.

 

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