Early Intervention Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Liverpool is seeking a motivated Care Co-ordinator to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team. The role involves coordinating care for service users, managing risk assessments, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have a relevant mental health qualification and excellent communication skills. You will receive support from service managers and clinical leads while contributing to evidence-based interventions. This position also offers opportunities for professional training and development.

Benefits

Professional training and development

Supportive organizational culture

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Qualified mental health practitioner with experience in community settings preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Knowledge of Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the care of service users ensuring proper assessment and care planning.
• Liaise with families and significant others in developing care plans.
• Supervise risk assessments and management plans for service users.

Skills

Mental health practice

Risk assessment

Care planning

Communication skills

Education

Relevant mental health qualification

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for a change in career and do you like working in a challenging and rewarding setting? Do you want to build on and enhance the high level of skills and experience you already possess, why not consider this opportunity to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team?

The service works with people between the ages of 14‑65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis. We are looking for qualified, motivated, enthusiastic, self‑directed mental health practitioners to join the team as a Care Co‑ordinator with opportunities to be part of our assessment team. You will be involved in the patient journey from triage, assessment through to offering interventions supporting service users to recover from psychosis.

The service delivers both managerial supervision and clinical supervision from specialist staff. In‑house training covers all aspects of the service including psychological formulation, family interventions, CBT skills and assessment skills. Preferably you will have experience of working in a community setting, but this is not essential.

Liverpool Early Intervention Team is divided into two teams (North Liverpool and South/Central Liverpool). Service users will fall under the relevant team based on their GP location and catchment area. As a practitioner, you will be based in one team so that we can deliver care safely, efficiently, and effectively. If successful, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team delivering a range of evidence‑based interventions that fall within NICE guidelines.

Each team consists of a lead Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Leader, Care Coordinators, Psychology Team, Family Therapists, Support Time Recovery Workers, and IPS workers. The successful candidate will work alongside all members of the team to ensure a holistic, recovery focus is maintained throughout the service user pathway.

The successful candidate will also work in partnership with other agencies/teams, such as CJLT, CRHT, social care and addictions services, to promote a collaborative focus on care.

We fully promote professional and personal training and development, and there are opportunities to train in‑house and CPD, and develop your clinical skills through supervision, complex case discussions and reflective practice. We also provide CAARMS training, which is a specialist assessment for psychosis, and further training on how to deliver family interventions.

We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Service Managers and Clinical Leads.

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 to safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the Care Programme Approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
• Ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
• liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
• undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.
• ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
• direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
• participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
• participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
• communicate to other members of the multi‑disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
• use verbal and non‑verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
• check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communications.
• give and receive accurate up‑to‑date information regarding service users’ care in reviews and multi‑disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the trust.
• have accurate and up‑to‑date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.
• ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record.
• supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.
• provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested.
• ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow‑up action is taken.
• react pro‑actively in cases of service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
• actively participate in team meetings.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Dec 2025.