CYPMH Lead Practitioner — Thrive Framework Expert

Mersey Care Nhs Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Lead Practitioner in Children and Young People’s Mental Health, based in Whiston, United Kingdom. The post focuses on development of services and THRIVE-aligned pathways, with clinical oversight of shifts and specialist interventions.

The role involves delivering risk assessments, care planning, and multi-agency consultancy to support staff and partners within a 24-hour service for children and young people in crisis.

Qualifications

• Degree, or equivalent, or equivalent work-based experience.
• Registration with relevant professional body Appropriate Prescriber
• Evidence of CPD/short courses.
• Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
• Post graduate diploma or working towards MSC in advanced clinical practice.
• Experience of management and clinical leadership.
• Experience of successful multi-agency working.
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
• Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients / carers / colleagues.
• IT literate
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
• Report writing skills.
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries
• Understanding of multi-agency working
• Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
• Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.

Responsibilities

• To hold a caseload of complex assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a specialised, conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
• To provide direct specialist therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.
• Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
• To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
• To be responsible for the authorising of referrals to children and Young Peoples services, including urgent referrals
• To participate directly in the teams duty rotas and provide support and guidance to other colleagues undertaking the role.
• To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
• To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multiagency meetings.
• To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers
• To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of specialist knowledge
• To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
• To provide consultation, advice and guidance to colleagues and their team this is underpinned by theoretical specialist knowledge. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network.
• Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
• Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and Merseycare Foundation Trust safeguarding policies
• Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
• To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
• To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.

Skills

IT literate

Communication skills

Leadership

Multi-agency working

Education

Degree or equivalent

Postgraduate diploma / MSc in advanced clinical practice

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Lead Practitioner in Children and Young People’s Mental Health, based in Whiston, United Kingdom. The post focuses on development of services and THRIVE-aligned pathways, with clinical oversight of shifts and specialist interventions.

The role involves delivering risk assessments, care planning, and multi-agency consultancy to support staff and partners within a 24-hour service for children and young people in crisis.