Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Job summary

Spread your wings at Mersey Care and apply for a role within our Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services.

An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our multi disciplinary team in Warrington CYP MHS. 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 [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

To provide high standards of evidence based client centred care. To provide case management, clinical assessment and interventions to children, young people and their families with complex mental health needs. The role will include direct and indirect client work as well as consultation and liaison with other professionals around the specialist clinical area of CAMHS. The post-holder will be engaged in all levels of clinical response from urgent assessments to lower priority cases.

The post holder will be expected to work as a member of the CAMHS Multi-disciplinary team (MDT).The post-holder will be expected to ensure continuing development of their own practice and to support other team members in their development as appropriate. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and theircarers.

Main duties of the job

To accept referrals of children and their families, allocated by the Specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service's multi-disciplinary team process. 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 CAMHS 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.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Alders

Birch Avenue

Warrington

WA2 9TN

Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Alders

Birch Avenue

Warrington

WA2 9TN

Employer's website

https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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