Mental Health Practitioner

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Warrington is looking for a motivated mental health practitioner to join their CYPMHS Team. The role involves coordinating care for children and young people experiencing mental health issues and working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and organizational skills. Mersey Care offers a preceptorship programme for newly qualified clinicians to develop their skills effectively.

Benefits

Preceptorship programme for newly qualified clinicians

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and able to work autonomously.
• Experience in coordinating care and treatment for children and young people.
• Familiarity with the THRIVE model of care.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of CYP to coordinate their care and treatment.
• Assess new cases to ascertain suitability.
• Act as part of an MDT to deliver evidence-based treatments.

Skills

Communication skills

Organisation

Teamwork

Advocacy for children and young people

Education

Qualified mental health practitioner

Job description

Equal Opportunities

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.

Job Overview

Recently an exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated mental health practitioner to join our thriving team at Warrington CYPMHS Team. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and able to work well autonomously and as part of a team. We care for children and young people with varying mental health issues, providing treatment and therapy to them and their families/carers using the think family approach. We work towards the THRIVE model of care and work very closely with our partners across the borough so excellent communication skills and organisation is essential in this role. Although we would prefer someone with experience, Mersey Care offers a fantastic preceptorship programme which can help newly qualified clinicians develop their experience and skills effectively within the first 12 months.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of CYP to coordinate their care and treatment.
• Assess new cases to ascertain suitability.
• Act as part of an MDT to deliver evidence‑based treatments and therapies.
• Liaise with outside agencies to coordinate care.
• Act as an advocate for children and young people in your care ensuring the voice of the child is heard.
• Attend meetings and events to develop experience and skills as well as share relevant information.
• Assist with training.
• Ensure safeguarding is considered at every opportunity and follow policies and procedures in relation to any safeguarding concerns.
• Ensure policies and procedures of Mersey Care are followed at all times to ensure safe delivery of care.
• 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 user’s care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
• Liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
• Develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of contributions from other members of the team, and ensure that all significant people are aware of the plan and are actioning it appropriately.
• 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 for with guidance from a supervisor.
• Communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure communication of any relevant 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 often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.

Training and Development

Mersey Care offers a preceptorship programme that will help newly qualified clinicians develop their experience and skills effectively within the first 12 months.

About Mersey Care

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.