Mental Health Practitioner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Mental Health Practitioner to support children and young people with mental health problems. You will provide high standards of person-centered care, deliver interventions, and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams within inpatient and community settings.

The role aligns with CYPMH and national initiatives, with supervision and opportunities to develop within the THRIVE framework and clinical governance structures.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively with service users, families and colleagues.
• Experience in care coordination and care planning.
• Knowledge of THRIVE framework and child and adolescent mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based care for children and young people with mental health needs.
• Offer interventions, advice, and supervision to colleagues and partner agencies.
• Contribute to assessment, planning and evaluation within a recovery-focused model.
• Participate in 24-hour rostering where required.

Skills

Communication

Listening

Negotiation

Teamwork

Empathy

Education

RMN/Nurse qualification

AHP qualification

Social Worker qualification

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details and requirements of the role.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP Social Worker

Desirable criteria

• Degree
• Evidence of post registration study.
• Approved training in CYPMHS

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
• Effective Care Co-ordination
• Care Planning and evaluation
• Quality and clinical audit

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working with young people
• Appreciate the process of standard setting and audit

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively.
• Possess good listening and negotiation skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• Professional attitude
• Flexibility
• Possess a caring, compassionate and empathic attitude

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respect
• Enthusiasm
• Support

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Health & Safety/Risk Management Mental Health Act
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Diversity and inclusion

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

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