Specialist Health Visitor - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you a Health Visitor who is passionate in working in the field of parent infant mental health? Are you passionate about supporting families in the perinatal period? Are you committed to providing high quality, evidenced based care and would like the opportunity to work in the BABS team?

If so, we want to hear from you, as an exciting opportunity has arisen to join Mersey Care's Building and Attachment Service in Sefton as a Specialist Health Visitor.

Work as a specialist practitioner to manage, develop and lead familybased care in the perinatal period where the parents have or are at risk of developing mental health difficulties and where these are likely to impact on their infant's emotional development. This will supplement and maybe in consultation with the care given by the universal health visiting service, providing an outreach approach into universal services, and integral as part of an effective Specialist BABS Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Act as an advocate for parents, and their infants, with parent infant mental health difficulties to ensure they receive active and effective care.
Act as a professional resource/role model in supporting the BABS service in providing quality of care. Maintain a professional portfolio demonstrating clinical practice and skills. Provide Clinical and professional advice to other members of the team within scope of experience and practice.
Undertake comprehensive assessments of families who are referred for additional support including assessing the needs of partners/fathers and family members to identify where additional support is required. Delivery of specific and targeted interventions to women with complex needs, requiring whole family health intervention with a parent/infant relationship focus within the wider multidisciplinary team.

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.

Managerial

Manage a defined caseload of clients working within policies but having the freedom to prioritise the needs of individuals within that caseload.

Be the accountable practitioner for the defined BABS caseload, prioritising and delegating planned interventions appropriately to members of the support Team in accordance with individual's skills and abilities.

Monitor, prioritise and delegate client contact within the Service and alert managers if additional resources are required due to changes in demand and capacity.

Be responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the work delegated from the defined caseload to team members.

Line manage and supervise skill mix and support staff on a day-to-day basis.

Ensure that the standard of record keeping and report writing is maintained within the team as per the record keeping policy.

Identify and facilitate learning and training needs of self and team members in line with NMC and post-registration education practice (PREP) requirements, skill mix competencies, personal development plans (PDR) and appraisals of staff, eg.

support staff, not covered by any guidance.

In conjunction with the Team Leader provide day
- to
- day supervision and support for junior staff and students

Act, contribute to and where appropriate take lead role in a multi-agency / multi-disciplinary arena when developing packages of care to improve health and social well-being.

Provide professional expertise to other professionals and agencies.

Leadership

Actively seek the views of the community, in order to influence and work alongside local organisations to improve the health and social well-being of the local population.

Profile health needs and target services to meet clients' needs and evaluate the effectiveness of intervention.

Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to practitioners, Nursery nurses, students and other support staff in the team.

Take an active role in service development activities, identifying areas for improvement and options for change. To lead or participate in working groups for service development, in BABS and within the organisation.

Support and be involved in the development of protocols, policies and guidelines wi