Positive Intervention Practitioner - Secure Care Division

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Positive Intervention Practitioner to join their dedicated team in a high secure setting. This role involves working collaboratively with clinical staff to provide therapeutic activities for patients in long-term segregation. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to supporting individuals with complex mental health needs. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care while working in a dynamic and supportive environment. If you are passionate about mental health and want to enhance your skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing care packages for individuals with mental health problems.
• Ability to work as a member of a team in a high secure setting.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development of therapeutic/rehabilitative programmes.
• Contribute to patient care plans and support rehabilitation activities.

Skills

Good listening skills

Negotiation skills

Crisis management

Effective communication

Understanding of confidentiality

Education

12 months experience in Mental Health Care

Job description

This post is only open to internal applicants.

Band 4

Main area Secure Care - Reducing Restrictive Practices Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent: R&R premia applies Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working hours may include working unsocial shifts (e.g., Night duty, Weekends, School Holidays, Christmas & Bank Holidays etc.)) Job ref 350-SC7190233

Site Maghull Health Park Town Liverpool Salary £26,530 - £29,114 Recruitment and Retention premia paid per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/05/2025 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

Do you want to enhance your skills working within the high secure setting?

Are you looking for a change in carer pathway?

Do you have the right values and want to support patients nursed in Long Term Segregation progress along their pathway?

The successful post holder will be expected to maintain professionalism and awareness of the potential risks for patients, themselves, and other colleagues, always.

The role of the Positive Intervention Programme Practitioner is to work collaboratively with the Charge Nurses, Occupational Therapists , and care team to provide therapeutic activity to services users in Long Term Segregation and Seclusion or those that may be identified as requiring additional support due to clinical acuity. Applicants must have 12 months experience in a Mental Health Care setting.

Main duties of the job

The Positive Interventions Team are a highly specialist which co-ordinate care plan and risk manage activity sessions with long term segregation and seclusion patients. The role includes assisting the clinical Team
Leader with care planning, therapeutic activity and exercise, taking into account risk managing interventions. This role requires a high level of interpersonal skills, good personal judgement, flexibility and
commitment to work with some of the most complex and challenging individuals in the psychiatric system.

The PIPs practitioner will work with core clinical staff to offer a range of activities both on and off ward to patients who are in long term segregation and seclusion. The PIPs practitioner is responsible for the safety of the patient, themselves and other staff members while they are engaged in the activity and being moved around the hospital site.

The PIPs practitioner will work as part of a multidisciplinary team ensuring effective relationships with patients and that operational security is maintained.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assist in the development of and implementation of patient therapeutic/rehabilitative programmes in conjunction with other members of the team.

To contribute to the delivery of a planned programme of care in collaboration with charge nurse, OT and the care team.

To contribute to the formulation of patient care plans to meet the identified needs.

To develop effective relationships with Patient Care Teams and pro-actively support rehabilitation activities for patients.

To assist the clinical team by being proactive in maximizing health, well being and social inclusion of service users.

To report general observations and provide feedback to the charge nurse both verbally and in written formats. This should include any concerns arising from the service-users physical, mental health or risks.

To be responsive and work effectively and collaboratively with other PIPs practitioners and clinical teams.

To participate in the communication process with wards throughout the hospital via the radio communications network in order to ensure patients movements and numbers are accurately monitored and carried out.

To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service-users due to their mental health needs.

To take responsibility for own development through the PACE process and will participate in regular supervision and reflective practice.

To ensure a safe and secure therapeutic environment for patients, staff and visitors in line with current Health & Safety legislation and in relation to the Hospital Security Manual. This includes infection control issues.

To maintain accurate charts where required that contribute to the assessment of a service-users physical condition e.g., weight or blood pressure, pulse and temperature.

To prepare a report as required to be submitted to the Reducing Restrictive Practice Monitoring Group and care team. The PIPs practitioner will also make daily clinical entries to reflect their interventions with patients in Long Term Segregation and seclusion.

To use skills and techniques, gained during mandatory training, to de-escalate situations where service-users become physically or verbally aggressive.

To ensure that tools and equipment are used and stored in a safe and secure manner.

To report on incidents and complaints as required in accordance with current format and guidelines.

To always behave in a manner, which upholds the professional stature of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of PSS
• Good working knowledge of RP including LTS and seclusion
• Knowledge of health promotion and physical health care needs of service users
• Ability to work as a member of a team
• 12 months experience in Mental Health care setting
• Experience of developing care packages for individuals with mental health problems
• Level 3 Response Team member

Values

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

Skills

• Possess good listening and negotiation skills
• PSS training
• Understanding of issues of confidentiality
• Able to communicate effectively
• Calm and reflective
• Able to deal with crisis situations

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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.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

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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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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.

Name Karl Hare Job title Positive Intervention Practitioner Team Manager Email address [e-mail]