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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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St Helens, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We have Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner opportunities across our mental health urgent care services in the following teams:

Crisis Resolution Home Treatment - We operate on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis providing intensive community-based support for adults with severe and complex mental health problems to prevent the need for admission to hospital.

We work collaboratively with a variety of services to support service users at home.

First Response Service - We operate on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis providing mental health assessment, intensive community interventions, advice, support and guidance across several access points for individuals presenting in crisis.

Band 5 to Band 6 Development post will also be considered.

Mental Health Liaison -We assess the mental health of people who attend their local A&E departments with a mental health problem.

Once the teams have assessed someone, they may then be referred onto local services to meet their current mental health needs.

You will provide leadership and supervision throughout each span of duty, ensuring standards of clinical practice and risk management is maintained.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring agreed interventions are employed.

You will participate in all aspects of Service User care, ensuring that Effective Care Co-ordination is implemented, with due regard being given to patient involvement in determining care approaches.

You will operate in a role that is primarily therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with service users, in a variety of care settings.

You will maintain close links with external referring agencies and colleagues from other agencies to assist with a high quality of service delivery.

You will carry out your duties in the community as an autonomous practitioner.

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.

See attached job description for detailed role and responsibilities.

Interviews will take place on 2 December 2023.

Please note - interviews will take place in person, we are not able to offer remote/virtual interviews (i.e. Microsoft Teams).