Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner
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Mental Health Practitioner
Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment team (CRHT) are currently looking to recruit Band 6 practitioners to join the team, the footprint covers Liverpool and Sefton.
CRHT operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis. CRHT offers to provide intensive home support to services users as an alternative to hospital admission. CRHT work collaboratively with a variety of services to support service users at home.
The post holder will be expected to work on a rotational shift basis in accordance with service demands, this includes working weekends and night shifts,
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care within the framework of Effective Care Co-ordination (ECC).
The post holder will operate as part of an integrated Home Treatment Service but be expected to be flexible in terms of delivering care within a variety of environments.
The team will work to assess and provide treatment to service users with complex needs. Alternative options to admission will be considered where possible.
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The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
The post holder will be expected to participate in a 24hr roster system 7 Days a week, on a rotational basis as and when the service demands.
The core roles include; face to face assessment, specialist mental health assessments, supporting and sharing information with the wider police community and acting in an advisory capacity for people in conjunction with mental health law. The role also involves delivering training and education to police colleague’s and signposting to appropriate partner agencies.
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.
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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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Spencer Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: Alice.spencer@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 250 5000
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