Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the Northwest invites applications for a Mental Health Practitioner within the CYPMH service across four Boroughs. You will deliver evidence-based, client-centered care to children and young people with mental health difficulties, working within THRIVE framework and under supervision of a mentor.

You will provide interventions, advice and consultation, support colleagues and partner agencies, and contribute to service development and 24-hour rostering where

Qualifications

• Evidence-based, client-centred care for children and young people with mental health problems.
• Ability to provide interventions, advice and supervision to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Experience aligning with THRIVE framework and CYPMH strategy.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of mental health care to service users within inpatient and community settings.
• Offer interventions, guidance and consultancy to teams and external partners.
• Support in planning, assessment, and evaluation of care under supervision and mentor guidance.

Skills

Mental health interventions

Consultation

Supervision

Job description

The Crisis Response and home Treatment Team offers an alternative to the 9-5 working

The team is a pan Borough service working across the four Boroughs .

The team offer urgent mental health assessments and have an extensive home treatment offer supporting complex young people in the community

As a Mental Health Practitioner, you will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

You will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

The post holder will provide high quality, evidence-based care for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services. To carry out duties as a practitioner under the supervision of a mentor.

To function as an associate nurse/named nurse/care coordinator/ to service users assisting in assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care. Where appropriate, to take part in a 24-hour system of rostering including internal rotation.

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: Alexandra Bellamy Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01744415640