Early Intervention Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Liverpool is seeking a Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Early Intervention Team for Psychosis. The role involves providing evidence-based care, formulating risk management plans, and supervising unqualified staff. A qualified Registered Nurse (MH), Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker is required. The position demands excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with service users with complex needs. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Qualifications

• Motivated and self-directed mental health practitioner required.
• Experience in providing evidence-based care and risk management.
• Ability to work with service users with complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality evidenced based care to service users.
• Supervise risk assessments and direct unqualified staff.
• Travel between multiple healthcare organization sites.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Risk management

Care coordination

Motivating and influencing colleagues

Education

Registered Nurse (Mental Health), Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker qualification

Job description

An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and driven Band 5 Mental Health Practitioner to work within the Early Intervention Team for Psychosis Sefton and Kirkby.

The service works with people between the ages of 14 - 65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis.

We are looking for qualified Registered Nurse (MH), Occupational Therapist or Social Worker who is a motivated, enthusiastic and self-directed mental health practitioner to join the team as a Keyworker. You will be involved in the patient journey from triage, assessment through to offering interventions supporting service users to recover from psychosis over a 3 year period.

The service delivers both managerial supervision and clinical supervision from specialist staff. There is in-house training on all aspects of the service including psychological formulation, Family Interventions, CBT skills and assessment skills. Mersey Care also has an active Learning and development team who offer personal, clinical and service development opportunities.

The team works with service users who present with a first episode of psychosis and is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community.

The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and directing unqualified staff.

In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery. You will have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to support service users and their families and challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.

The team covers a large geographical area and access to a vehicle is required for this role. Being able to travel between multiple sites in the course of performing duties is essential. The role will involve regular travel across healthcare organisation sites within the Mersey Care footprint. There may be occasions where you will be expected to travel to other areas such as the Young Persons inpatient Unit at the Countess of Chester.

Reasonable adjustments will be made for applicants who are unable to meet the criteria due to a disability. The Access to Work Scheme may be able to support disabled applicants.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Carol Rice Job title: Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07467116276