Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Main area Community CAMHS Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts Monday to Friday) Job ref 350-CC-N

Site Knowsley Recourse and Recovery Centre Town Whiston Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/07/:59



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 An exciting opportunity has arisen for 1 Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our multi disciplinary team working into a new service within the Warrington area.

Warrington Council in partnership with health are about to open up a care home which aims to support children and young people with complex mental health needs to live at home and in their communities.

The service will offer outreach to families who require support to remain together as well as 4 short to medium term beds registered under the children's homes regulations 2015.

The successful candidates will join the multi-Disciplinary team (MDT), which consists of therapists, Social workers and residential staff. Working jointly to provide holistic care planning, risk management and therapeutic treatment. The successful candidates will be based within the care home, they will receive management and clinical supervision from the CYP Crisis Response Team.

We are looking for an experienced and inspiring leaders who shares our passion for supporting our most vulnerable children.

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.

This post is subject toan enhanced with children's and adult's barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Main duties of the job The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:

• Promote safe practices
• Value the aims of service users
• Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
• Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
• Value social inclusion

The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and so is continually developing innovative and creative practice - so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hard working approach.

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 CLINICAL
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience. To undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
1.2. To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.
1.3. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
1.4.To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
1.5. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People's services.
1.6. To participate directly in the teams duty rotas.
1.7. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
1.8. To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multi-agency meetings.
1.9. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers
1.10. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of specialist knowledge
1.11. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
1.12. To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network

1.13. Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
1.14. Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children's Board and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies
1.15. Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
1.16. To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
1.17. To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust's service user participation agenda.

COMMUNICATION
2.1.To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi and uni disciplinary care. To effectively communicate professional opinions, verbally and in writing to other relevant professionals.
2.2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people's mental health services.
2.3. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to children, young people and families and to other professionals with in young people's services.
2.4. Communicate effectively with children, young people and their carers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations
2.5. Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews
2.6. Elicit highly sensitive information using engagement/ communication skills which are appropriate to the young person's stage of development
2.7. Work, as part of an integrated multi professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals
2.8. Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.

TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION.
3.1. Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and committed to continued development.
3.2. To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills in line the transformation of children and young people's mental health services
3.3. To provide specific training and /or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes
3.4. To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different background so that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to positive change . click apply for full job details