Mental Health Practitioner

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Mental Health Practitioner, where you will provide tailored support for mothers and birthing individuals facing mental health challenges. Be part of a compassionate team dedicated to improving emotional wellbeing during the perinatal period. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact through personalized care and collaboration with various health services.

Benefits

Flexible working

Qualifications

• Registered with an appropriate professional body.
• Experience managing a busy caseload of clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate, evidence-based care to women.
• Collaborate with maternity services and health partners.
• Contribute to service development and clinical supervision.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Risk Management

Clinical Assessment

Education

Diploma/Degree in Mental Health

Post Graduate Qualification in Specialism

Job description

Main area Mental Health Practitioner Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (If you have any specific working hours, arrangements, or requirements, please don’t hesitate to contact a member of the team to discuss.) Job ref 350-CC7189639

Site Hollins Park Town Warrington Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/06/2025 23:59

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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

Are you passionate about supporting mothers, birthing people and their babies during the perinatal period?

Join our compassionate and dynamic team, where you’ll play a key role in delivering thoughtful and personalised mental health care.

This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference by providing tailored mental health support for women and birthing people whom experience moderate to severe and complex mental health challenges during the perinatal period.

This is a rewarding role where you’ll be part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team working to improve the emotional wellbeing of women and birthing people during the perinatal period and promote healthy, secure attachments between mothers and their babies.

We’re committed to improving awareness and raising standards of care across both universal and specialist services, ensuring mothers and their babies receive the support they need during this important time.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide compassionate, evidence-based care to an identified caseload of women, delivering tailored interventions that support maternal mental health and early parent-infant relationships. You will play a vital role in ensuring that care is safe, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of the women and families we serve.

Our team works at the intersection of physical and mental health, bringing together professionals from a range of backgrounds to support families across the perinatal pathway. You’ll collaborate with maternity services, GPs, health visitors, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure care is joined-up, high-quality, and accessible.

As part of your role, you’ll contribute to safeguarding, support early identification and triage of referrals, provide specialist advice, and help plan and coordinate care packages that are integrated across services. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to service development, staff training, student mentoring, and clinical supervision, helping to shape the future of perinatal mental health care within the Trust and beyond.

This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to truly make a difference during one of the most critical times in a person’s life. If you are committed to holistic, person-centred care and want to be part of a service that values compassion, collaboration, and continuous learning, we would love to hear from you.

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

The attached job description and person specification outlines further details in relation to main duties and responsibilities of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (i.e. Registered Mental Health Nurse)
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training
• Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism

Knowledge & Experience

• Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training.
• Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training.
• An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/Mental Health Capacity Act requirements
• CPA Process.
• Skills and experience in delivering mental health training and education to nonmental health profession
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment
• Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems.
• Working within a community mental health settin
• Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
• Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

Skills

• Able to produce well written reports
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings.
• Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
• Ability to manage risk.
• Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage own time and that of the team’s.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Ability to be mobile across a geographical area
• Ability to manage change in a positive manner
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
• Computer literacy including analysis of data or willingness to train in such
• Excellent clinical assessment skills.
• Skills in the delivery of attachment and bonding based interventions to mothers with mental illness
• Participation in user involvement in services

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

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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We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.