Senior Wellbeing Practitioner - Liverpool MHST

Job responsibilities

Main duties and Responsibilities

Clinical

• To communicate to the client and family, knowledge of therapeutic processes, confidentiality and available options involved in their assessment and care plan, to enable them to engage appropriately from a position of informed consent. This will sometimes include communication about highly sensitive material and outcomes.
• Utilising analytical skills, specialist knowledge and experience provide a comprehensive assessment and formulation of the presenting problem taking into account the childs educational attainment, chronological/ developmental stage, inner world/ emotional wellbeing, the mental health of the childs parents, the family dynamics and environment, and the broader social context including health and school.
• Develop a planned programme of intervention utilising behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives as indicated by the formulation, the needs of the client and the evidence base.
• Provide individual, couple, family and group interventions as appropriate as part of a client's integrated, therapeutic programme.
• Undertake with supervision/consultation, case management of cases of some severity, risk and complexity, co-ordinating multi-disciplinary inputs and working in partnership with other agencies where appropriate.
• Identify potential signs of mental health disorder/other specialist need and refer to the appropriate professional for assessment.

Responsibility for patient/client care

• To communicate to the client and family, knowledge of therapeutic processes, confidentiality and available options involved in their assessment and care plan, to enable them to engage appropriately from a position of informed consent. This will sometimes include communication about highly sensitive material and outcomes.
• Utilising analytical skills, specialist knowledge and experience provide a comprehensive assessment and formulation of the presenting problem taking into account the childs educational attainment, chronological/ developmental stage, inner world/ emotional wellbeing, the mental health of the childs parents, the family dynamics and environment, and the broader social context including school.
• Develop a planned programme of intervention utilising behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives as indicated by the formulation, the needs of the client and the evidence base.
• Provide individual, couple, family and group interventions as appropriate as part of a client's integrated, therapeutic programme.
• Undertake with supervision/consultation, case management of cases of some severity, risk and complexity, co-ordinating multi-disciplinary inputs and working in partnership with other agencies where appropriate.
• Provide risk assessment of children and young people admitted to the acute paediatric ward, following acts of self-harm as first on call undertaking responsibility for discharge or seeking further consultation/assessment from psychiatrist on-call as appropriate.
• Provide 9 - 5 emergency cover under supervision/consultation as agreed, for referrals of children at risk of self-harming.
• Identify potential signs of mental health disorder/other specialist need and refer to the appropriate professional for assessment.

Responsibility for policy/service development

• Maintain comprehensive clinical notes and consultation records in accordance with trust policies and procedures
• Contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Service Groups operational policies and procedures.
• Participate in MDT and multi-agency meetings
• Share responsibility with other team members, as appropriate, for implementing service developments.
• Contribute to the management of workloads of appropriate staff within the framework of the Service Group policies and procedures.
• Contribute to the delivery of national and local priorities as set out in the Trusts corporate objectives.

Responsibility for research and development

• Utilise theory, literature and research to support evidence-based practice
• Participate in agreed research activities and carry out specific research projects within own specialist area.
• Undertake specific project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, as requested
• Utilise patient electronic record data for the implementation of audit and service delivery purposes to inform service developments.
• Provide appropriate statistical returns as required.

Supervision and Consultation

• Provide clinical supervision and Clinical Skills Training to trainee and qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioners/Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioners in Mental Health Support Teams in line with EMHP registration requirements.
• Provide consultation/training to professionals from other services, under supervision, and where appropriate.
• Undertake regular clinical supervision/consultation with a supervisor/consultant agreed with the professional lead.

Audit and Research

• Ensure use of best practice in all work, utilising the evidence base where available.
• Participate in regular team meetings.
• Undertake regular audit and evaluation of work under supervision.
• Record audit and evaluation outcomes in portfolio.

Management

• Manage own workload ensuring appropriate balance of clinical and non-clinical work and of case mix.
• Maintain comprehensive clinical notes and consultation records in accordance with trust policies and procedures.
• Participate in team business meeting.
• Participate in service development.
• Undertake responsibility for delegated aspects of service management with the agreement of the Senior Leadership Team

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Educational Mental Health Practitioner or Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner, with associated registration with BABCP or BPS
• Completion of the Post Grad. Diploma in Senior Wellbeing Practitioner programme (or willingness to work towards)

Desirable

• Qualified in core profession such as Nursing, Occupational Therapist, Social Work or Creative Arts therapies with associated professional registration.
• oQualification in a therapeutic modality

Knowledge

Essential

• Must demonstrate a working knowledge of health, education, social services and the voluntary sector.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of relevant, current legislation.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of safety factors in management of self-harming behaviours and child protection issues.
• Must demonstrate understanding of principles underlying psychodynamic, systemic, cognitive and behavioural therapies.
• Must demonstrate a working knowledge of child development
• Must demonstrate awareness of recent government initiatives.

Desirable

• Knowledge of audit and evaluation methodology

Experience of

Essential

• Post qualification experience of working within Mental Health Support Teams
• Must have experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary setting
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to junior colleagues

Desirable

• Experience of working in child and adolescent mental health services, and/or physical health settings.

Clinical

Essential

• Must be able to demonstrate application of therapeutic and analytical skills.
• Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective in relation to practice.
• Must be experienced in and able to demonstrate proficiency in case management responsibility.
• Must be able to demonstrate the ability to provide, (with appropriate supervision), assessment of emergency/ self-harming behaviour.

Skills

Essential

• Must demonstrate organisational skills to manage workload balance appropriately.
• Must demonstrate a commitment to the overall vision and the development of the professional group of mental health practitioners.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Must demonstrate utilisation of professional development planning in own career progression.
• Must show enthusiasm and appreciation for multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Must demonstrate a professional manner.
• Must demonstrate a high level of communication skills commensurate with the nature of clinical and professional contacts required of the post.
• Works within professional ethics and Trust policies
• Accountable for own professional actions

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).