Job Overview
Senior Mental Health Practitioner jobs are open for qualified individuals to join the Knowsley CYPMHS team. This position is a 12-month fixed-term contract for 0.8 WTE (4 days per week). The role involves providing high standards of care, including the assessment, treatment, and care coordination of children and young people referred to the service. The role requires working as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and independently to deliver person-centred, evidence-based care.
Main Duties of the Job
- Accept referrals for children and families, ensuring thorough assessment and care planning.
- Develop, implement, and evaluate interventions in collaboration with the child and caregiver, adhering to best practice standards.
- Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and ensure appropriate risk management plans are documented.
- Regularly review care plans and discuss any concerns in clinical supervision.
- Liaise with other agencies to gather and share relevant information.
- Notify local child protection coordinators and senior clinicians of any safeguarding concerns.
- Use outcome measures to track changes in care quality in line with CYPMHS procedures.
- Organise and manage caseload and work schedule in agreement with the Senior Nurse/Clinician.
- Provide care in settings that best support the needs of the child and family.
- Undertake clinical procedures, including monitoring physical health parameters relevant to the treatment plan.
- Record and report effects and side effects of prescribed psychotropic medication.
- Engage with service users and carers, delivering evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions.
Please refer to the full job description for a detailed list of duties.
Working for Our Organisation
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest providers of physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people. The Trust also provides services across North Wales and the Midlands. Committed to providing high-quality, person-centred care, the Trust supports the personal and professional development of its staff.
Specialist inpatient and community services are offered in mental health, learning disabilities, addictions, and brain injury care. Mersey Care is one of only three NHS Trusts in the UK to offer high secure mental health services.
At Mersey Care, the commitment is to ‘perfect care’—safe, effective, timely, and equitable care. Staff are actively supported in delivering the best possible service, working with service users, families, and carers to improve and design future services together.
Flexible working requests are welcomed for all roles.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
- Assess care needs and develop, implement, and evaluate individual care programs.
- Act as Named Nurse where required.
- Ensure compliance with Trust policies and procedures in clinical practice.
- Contribute to setting service user care standards based on sound research.
- Participate in the monitoring and evaluation of nursing practices in the clinical area.
- Provide care based on individual care plans and integrated Care Pathways.
- Support the development and implementation of care pathways, including appropriate assessments and models of care.
- Promote effective team working.
- Participate in assessing potential new admissions and completing quality reports.
- Develop therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
- Participate in case supervision to ensure the highest standards of care and documentation.
- Engage in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
- Participate in managerial supervision.
- Maintain a safe and supportive ward environment.
- Incorporate health promotion and education into practice.
- Ensure record-keeping meets professional and Trust standards.
- Safely manage and administer medications in line with professional codes of conduct and Trust policies.
- Collaborate professionally with the MDT and promote intra-agency working.
- Participate in setting care standards based on sound research findings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
- Professional Qualification
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Post Graduate or equivalent level of experience
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working with children and young people
- Experience in mental health care
Additional Information
- Please ensure the email account from which the application is submitted is monitored for all communication regarding the application. Correspondence will be sent from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs.
- Only candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
- As a Disability Confident Employer, a guaranteed interview scheme is available for applicants with a disability who meet the essential criteria. Indicate this in the personal information section of the online application to be considered under this scheme.
- Applicants requiring a reasonable adjustment to the recruitment process should email [email protected]
- The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised if a high volume of applications is received.
- All post holders requiring an enhanced DBS check must subscribe to the DBS Update Service, with an annual fee of £13.
- Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
- Applicants using Artificial Intelligence in their application must declare this in the application form.
Deadline for Application: 5th December 2024, midnight
Proposed Interview Date: 12th December 2024
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