Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner - St Helens, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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St Helens, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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This new position is an exciting innovative post for a Children and Young People's Well-Being Practitioner (CYWP), to work within the Primary care network (PCN) to support children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

Mental health is as important to Children's and Young People safety and wellbeing as their physical health. It can impact on all aspects of their life, including their educational attainment, relationships, and physical wellbeing.

Across the Primary Care Network, we are finding more children are presenting to the Practices who are struggling with their mental health and wellbeing, and therefore we are building a unique team of people with a range of skills to provide a children and Young People's mental health and wellbeing service across St Helens community.

The post will be based within CYPMHS St Helens one day per week and 4 days within the PCN around 2-3 GP Surgery's.

The working hours will be 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.

You'll be given opportunities to develop your career from day one, so if you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, with regular formal CPD opportunities to further develop your potential.

Young people are our future - make a difference to a young person's life

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.

Please view the job descriptions and person specifications for the PCN Post. Please find attached Job Description to view.