Senior Mental Health Practitioner
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a well motivated Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the CYP Community Eating Disorder Service.
The successful candidate will have high standards of care and provide assessment, treatment and care co-ordination of children and young people referred into the service.
The post holder will be expected to work as a member of the MDT and also be able to work well independently to provide person centred, evidence based care at all time.
The CYP Eating Disorder Service is a Pan Borough service covering Warrington, St Helens, Halton and Knowsley and the successful candidate would be expected to provide care in each of these boroughs.
Main duties of the job
- To accept referrals of children and their families.
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions that are agreed with the child and caregiver in accordance with best practice. Ensure comprehensive risk assessment of children, young people and families and that risk management plans are in place and documented.
- To review plans on a regular basis and discuss in clinical supervision any issues that needs addressing.
- To liaise with other agencies in terms of information gathering and sharing.
- To inform local child protection co-ordinator and senior clinicians of any concerns regarding protection issues.
- Use audit/outcome measures to measure change/quality in accordance with Specialist CYPEDS procedures.
- To organise own caseload and work schedules in agreement with Senior Nurse/Clinician.
- To see families/children in the setting most appropriate for effective and efficient care.
- Undertake clinical procedures, including the measurement of physical characteristics relevant to their treatment plan e.g. blood pressure, weight etc.
- Monitor and record/report effects and side effects of any other prescribed psychotropic medication.
- Engage and support service users and carers utilising evidence based psychotherapeutic principles.
- Prescribe and deliver evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions.
- Please see job description for full list of duties expected.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
24 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
350-COM5978713
Job locations
Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
Dragon Lane
Prescot
L35 5DR
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
Dragon Lane
Prescot
L35 5DR
Employer's website
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