Senior Wellbeing Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the Mental Health Support Team in Warrington. You will deliver mental health support to children and young people across education settings, working with schools and local partners to provide assessment, low intensity interventions and targeted referrals.

The post requires professional registration (BABCP or BPS) and appropriate postgraduate qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering mental health support to children and young people.
• Ability to work with schools and other agencies to support referrals.
• Commitment to safeguarding and professional guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and low intensity interventions for children and young people.
• Support school staff and third sector workers with referrals and mental health tasks.
• Make referrals to statutory and voluntary services and guide patients to community supports.
• Maintain flexible delivery including clinic hours and modes of contact.
• Liaise with secondary care, social care, schools and partner agencies.
• Adhere to safeguarding policies and participate in social care meetings when required.
• Conduct risk assessments and develop risk management plans; escalate to crisis services when needed.
• Provide clinical supervision to the service team and supervise colleagues.
• Role to evolve in line with CYPMH strategy and national/local initiatives.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Low intensity interventions

Risk assessment

Clinical supervision

Education

PGCert/PGDip in Education Mental Health or CYPP Wellbeing

BABCP or BPS registration

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the established Mental Health Support Team in Warrington, delivering mental health support to children and young people across education settings in Warrington.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

This Post Requires a Professional Registration

• Education Mental Health Practitioner Post Graduate (PGCert) or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip)
• OR
• Children & Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner PGCert or PGDip
• AND
• Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Commitment to complete the qualification once in post
• AND
• Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS

• Provide assessment and low intensity interventions, such as psycho-educational interventions, one-to-one psychological therapies and parenting interventions.
• Support professionals, such as school staff and third sector employees, in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles.
• Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required.
• Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours, mode of delivery and location of contact.
• Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services, social care, schools, and other partner agencies.
• Adhere to Trust safeguarding policies and local safeguarding procedures. Where necessary, attend social care meetings such as Team Around the Family, Child in Need, or Child Protection meetings.
• Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including referrals to relevant secondary care or crisis services).
• Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance with the relevant professional guidelines and policies.
• Provide supervision to practitioners in the service line.
• 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dave Mulholland Job title: Assistant Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01925 664 100