Mental Health Practitioner - Prescot, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Knowsley CYPMHS Team, as a Mental Health Practitioner Band 5.

You will be part of an MDT, working closely with supportive and experienced colleagues, and will be involved in the service user's journey to recovery, helping to identify early signs of psychosis, and supporting the person to understand and manage their symptoms.

Previous community experience is desirable, but not essential, as training will be provided.

The post holder will be involved in the screening process, in order to identify people who may be experiencing a first episode of psychosis, or are at risk of developing psychosis.

They will be responsible for the planning and delivery of interventions, in collaboration with our service users and their families.

There will be a requirement to support the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical lead, in maintaining standards, to ensure that NICE concordant care is delivered in an individualised and innovative way.

The post holder will work within the community environment but will be expected to be flexible in terms of delivering care within a variety of settings.

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.

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user referrals and models of care.

Participate in case supervision to monitor named primary nurses' standards of service user care and documentation.

Give/receive regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.

Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user's personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate in the referral process, including the assessment of such individuals in accordance with the agreed care pathway and the completion of quality reports where appropriate.

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as Care Coordinator as required.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Where indicated and following completion of the relevant training the practitioner will act as a non-medical prescriber, at all times working within their sphere of clinical competence.