Job summary
- Main area
- CYP and Families
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9-5pm)
- Job ref
- 350-CC6737374
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tha Alders
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
Warrington CYPMHS are looking to appoint a Band 5 core or none core registered practitioner to their well established high performing team. The team is multi-disciplinary and made up therapists, nurses, social workers, psychiatry and support staff. We are looking for a highly motived, enthusiastic individual who has a passion for working with young people in the community. Core tasks include mental health assessments and care co-ordination.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families/carers referred into the service.
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. 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
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 assessments, treatment upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
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.
Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
To participate directly in the teams duty rota’s in line with the grading of the post.
To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in cooperation with the child young person and carers
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.
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.
Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and the Trust safeguarding policies
Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities and duties.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Core professional qualification in: Registered nursing, Social work, Occupational therapy
- Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained)
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups including adegree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse.
- Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management.
- Knowledge and skills in a range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
- Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents. Have experience in providing risk assessments
- Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately.
- Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.
- Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate care plan / risk management plan Knowledge of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to convey and to model an understanding of the ethical guidelines in all areas of professional conduct.
- Physical stamina to support clinical caseload.
- A commitment to the continuous improvement of services using feedback from individual clients, families, user surveys and clinical research.
- Emotional stamina, and resilience to respond constructively in stressful situations
- Ability to use clinical and case management supervision positively and effectively
- Ability to organise and co-ordinate areas of work.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Manley
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 575904
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