Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Warrington CYPMHS Mental Health Practitioner Opportunity
Warrington CYPMHS has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to come and join our well-established community team, specialising in Child and Young Person Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in the Warrington Borough.
Role Overview
We are looking to appoint a permanent band 6, senior mental health practitioner.
Key Responsibilities
As part of the role of a senior mental health practitioner, you would be tasked with the duty (referral management), assessments, case management and therapeutic intervention for children and young people (CYP).
Warrington CYPMHS has successfully implemented Thrive and works closely with our multi-agency partners throughout the Warrington borough. This includes working with CDC, education institutes and third-sector organisations, this is an important aspect of our work as we continue to strive for outstanding support for CYP and their families.
Requirements
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. We would welcome applications from experienced nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and non-core practitioners with mental health experience.
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Key Duties
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client-centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
- Manage your own caseload
- Provide clinical assessment and interventions to children, young people, their families, and wider networks with complex mental health needs; in line with the THRIVE Framework
- Provide duty (referral management) support when required
- Engage in direct and indirect client work as well as consultation and liaison with other professionals around the specialist clinical area of CYPMHS
- Be engaged in all levels of clinical responses such as urgent assessments
- Work as a member of the CYPMHS Multi-disciplinary team (MDT)
About Us
CYPMHS is an exciting area of work that is always evolving with new research and innovation; 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 Embrace The Core Values Of The Organisation And Adopt The Principles Of Recovery And THRIVE. These Principles Will Recognise The Need To
About Mersey Care
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.
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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.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Will Stringer
- Job title: Clinical Team Manager
- Email address: will.stringer@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01925 575904
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