Job summary
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women. The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions to maximise health and wellbeing in during the perinatal period working with mothers and infants. The service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of physical and mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers accessing specialist services. Improving the physical health of our clients and reducing the impact of inequality on poor health outcomes (both maternal and child) has been identified as a need in our current service provision and this new post reflects this.
Main duties of the job
Under the supervision of the care coordinator, the post holder will assist in the identification of physical health and lifestyle needs and participate in the delivery and evaluation of interventions developed to meet those needs. Working alongside mothers experiencing moderate to severe perinatal mental health problems and including those with pre-existing severe mental health disorders. The post holder will contribute to holistic community assessments, in a range of settings, with a strong emphasis on promoting optimum physical health and wellbeing. The post holder will actively work with families and carers in their own home and in the community settings flexibly and will offer practical support and advice based on the identified needs of service users and their children.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In addition, the practitioner will be expected to offer both support and advice to partners and relatives and to work in an integrated manner with key partner organisations and professionals. The post holder will be required to support in providing consultative advice to other agencies and to participate in delivering training and development for other professionals. Liaison with a wide range of agencies including midwifery, health visiting and primary care, is central to the role and therefore excellent communication skills are essential.The role includes travelling across wide geography as necessary for care provision.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In addition, the practitioner will be expected to offer both support and advice to partners and relatives and to work in an integrated manner with key partner organisations and professionals. The post holder will be required to support in providing consultative advice to other agencies and to participate in delivering training and development for other professionals. Liaison with a wide range of agencies including midwifery, health visiting and primary care, is central to the role and therefore excellent communication skills are essential.The role includes travelling across wide geography as necessary for care provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of NVQ Level 3 in a subject relevant to Health, Social Care and/or child development
- Good standard of general education including English and Maths to GCSE grade C or above or equivalent
Desirable
- Foundation Degree in Health care
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Clinical skills and competencies relevant to the role
- Experience of working with local community groups in delivery of training sessions
- Knowledge and understanding about health determinants and barriers to good health
- Record keeping & report writing skills, including IT skills to manage electronic patient notes
- Understanding of issues relating to safeguarding of vulnerable groups
- Recent experience of working with parents/families/children
- Understand how motivation works and how behaviour can change
- Knowledge of local services and how to support individuals to access
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Good interpersonal skills
- Understanding of confidentiality and diversity issues
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Experience in a health or social care setting with service users and/or families with complex needs'
- To demonstrate how to implement clinical care/ care packages
- Post qualification experience of working with children, young people and their families
- Experience of working with challenging groups /individuals
- Experience of contributing to appropriate risk management/child protection plans
Desirable
- Ability to deliver training to other professionals, service users and carers
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of lifestyle facors, physical and mental health on pregnancy outcomes for mums and babies
- Knowledge of the impact of psychotropic medication on physical health
- Good working knowledge of models of family support
- Experience of working with clients in Recovery from serious Mental Health issues
- Experience in a health-related care setting with service users experiencing severe and enduring mental health
Skills
Essential
- Ability to use tools relevant to the service e.g., clinical outcomes tools
- Experience in making judgements involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis
- Contribute to appropriate risk management/child protection plans
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- Ability to demonstrate non-judgemental / professional attitude
- Empathy, tact and judgement to enable and support ongoing positive relationships with Clients, their families or Carers
- Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working and the development of others
- Excellent organisation skills and time management
- Flexible, and responsive to change
- Confident and Professional
- Demonstrates an ability to value the opinions of others
- Strong interpersonal, motivational, communication and organisational skills, qualities and behaviours
- Flexibility to respond to urgent client need or the needs of the Service
- Willingness to undergo education and training for both service and professional development needs
- Positive role model
- To demonstrate how to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills; barriers to understanding
- Travel is integral to this post ability to travel across Trust sites
- Able to work flexible hours as required
- Evidence of ongoing personal development
- Willingness to undertake further training
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Minimum of NVQ Level 3 in a subject relevant to Health, Social Care and/or child development
- Good standard of general education including English and Maths to GCSE grade C or above or equivalent
Desirable
- Foundation Degree in Health care
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Clinical skills and competencies relevant to the role
- Experience of working with local community groups in delivery of training sessions
- Knowledge and understanding about health determinants and barriers to good health
- Record keeping & report writing skills, including IT skills to manage electronic patient notes
- Understanding of issues relating to safeguarding of vulnerable groups
- Recent experience of working with parents/families/children
- Understand how motivation works and how behaviour can change
- Knowledge of local services and how to support individuals to access
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Good interpersonal skills
- Understanding of confidentiality and diversity issues
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Experience in a health or social care setting with service users and/or families with complex needs'
- To demonstrate how to implement clinical care/ care packages
- Post qualification experience of working with children, young people and their families
- Experience of working with challenging groups /individuals
- Experience of contributing to appropriate risk management/child protection plans
Desirable
- Ability to deliver training to other professionals, service users and carers
- Knowledge and understanding of the impact of lifestyle facors, physical and mental health on pregnancy outcomes for mums and babies
- Knowledge of the impact of psychotropic medication on physical health
- Good working knowledge of models of family support
- Experience of working with clients in Recovery from serious Mental Health issues
- Experience in a health-related care setting with service users experiencing severe and enduring mental health
Skills
Essential
- Ability to use tools relevant to the service e.g., clinical outcomes tools
- Experience in making judgements involving facts or situations, some requiring analysis
- Contribute to appropriate risk management/child protection plans
- Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice
- Ability to demonstrate non-judgemental / professional attitude
- Empathy, tact and judgement to enable and support ongoing positive relationships with Clients, their families or Carers
- Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working and the development of others
- Excellent organisation skills and time management
- Flexible, and responsive to change
- Confident and Professional
- Demonstrates an ability to value the opinions of others
- Strong interpersonal, motivational, communication and organisational skills, qualities and behaviours
- Flexibility to respond to urgent client need or the needs of the Service
- Willingness to undergo education and training for both service and professional development needs
- Positive role model
- To demonstrate how to provide and receive routine information requiring tact or persuasive skills; barriers to understanding
- Travel is integral to this post ability to travel across Trust sites
- Able to work flexible hours as required
- Evidence of ongoing personal development
- Willingness to undertake further training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
