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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Whiston, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Clinical:

To accept referrals of children and their families, allocated by the Specialist Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services 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. Prescribe and deliver evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions. Act as knowledge resource in specialist area of practice to other team members and other agencies as required. To ensure co-ordinated service user centred care with a proactive role with other involved professionals.

Managerial:
To be responsible for the supervision and monitoring of caseloads of junior clinicians as and when required. Participate in the process of clinical supervision. To observe and maintain agreed policies and procedures as defined by the Trust. Participate in Multi-disciplinary Team meetings and other service related meetings as appropriate.

To inform the lead clinician for the Multi-disciplinary Team of matters that might affect policy decisions. To co-operate with senior clinicians in CAMHS in investigating complaints and mishaps. To participate in in-service training and interagency staff. To undertake any such duties as may be delegated and appropriate according to level of skill and competency.

Follow policies and protocols with regards to children and family services and share relevant information with other agencies as required by Child Protection procedures.

Supervised for managerial purposes by the Team Manager Participate in the Trusts research, audit and development projects as required.