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    Student Mental Health Practitioner - Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    This new position is an exciting innovative post for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, to work within the Primary care network (PCN) to support children and young people who are experiencing mental health difficulties.

    The East Warrington PCN provides primary care services across three GP practices.

    Birchwood Medical Centre
    Fearnhead Cross Medical Centre
    Padgate Medical Centre

    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 East 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 East Warrington's community.


    You will work alongside a Children's Care Co-Ordinator, a Children and young person's wellbeing Practitioner, a Health and Wellbeing Coach and a Social Prescribing Link Worker.

    The role requires collaborative working with the East Warrington Primary Care Network clinical teams and mental health services to shape, design and deliver an excellent holistic service for our children and young people.

    As an Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.


    As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

    The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. Value social inclusion

    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'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.

    To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.

    Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework


    To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

    To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young Peoples services.

    To participate directly in the teams duty rotas.

    To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained.

    Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multi-agency meetings.

    To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers


    To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.

    To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network.

    Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

    Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies


    Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.


    To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

    To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.
    Must have qualification in at least one of the following areas , Individual or group Psychotherapy Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Person centred counselling Systemic Family Practice Webster Stratton Incredible years / parenting groups professional
    Post Graduate or equivalent level of experience

    Core Professional qualification in one of the following areas oNursing oSocial work oPsychology oOccupational therapy

    Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
    Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
    Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management and the supervision of students as required

    Knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.

    Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
    Have experienced in providing risk assessments

    Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.

    Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.


    Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
    A level knowledge of theory and practice of specialist therapy / interventions Experience of delivering teaching, training
    Experience of delivering teaching, training.
    Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
    Information technology and management skills using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software.
    Level of knowledge and/or training and other psychological therapies.
    Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups

    Interpersonal skills of a high level to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.

    Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead a multi-agency care plan / risk management plan
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