Link Worker - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
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Liverpool, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Senior mental health practitioner or registered psychologist (band 7): schools link worker


This is an exciting opportunity for a mental health practitioner to join the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

The mental health practitioner will be a member of the specialist, multi-disciplinary service.

This role will support with the Team Around Schools Pilot currently underway in Sefton, working with schools and multi agencies to support children, young people and their families collaboratively.

They will be based in the Mental Health Support Teams and will report to the MHST strategic clinical lead.

Their primary role will be to act as a link for schools and colleges in Sefton (as per the recommendations of the 2017 Green Paper:
Transforming Children and Young People's Mental Health Provision). They will provide rapid advice, consultation and signposting for children and young people aged 5-18. They will also provide cover to band 7 MHST team leads if needed.


We are looking for experienced individuals who have skills and experience in working with children and young people and with families from communities that may be at increased risk of social exclusion or marginalisation.


  • Provide specialist assessments of children and young people referred to the service group
  • Develop, implement and review a range of evidence based treatment plans informed by clinical assessment and the specific needs of the individual within their wider social context
  • Exercise autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of children/young people in the context of Care Aims and CAPA models
  • Provide specialist advice, guidance and consultation to other professional groups
  • Undertake risk assessment and risk management for individual children and young people and to provide advice to external agencies regarding appropriate risk
  • Act as care coordinator, where appropriate, taking responsibility for initiating planning and review of care plans under CPA
  • Effectively communicate with families and other professionals involved in the life of the child/young person
  • Actively record all clinical outcomes.
  • Participate in the Service Group MDT as appropriate and at the direction of senior clinicians within the Team.
CLINICAL SUPERVISION/TRAINING/TEACHING

  • Receive regular clinical supervision in accordance with professional guidelines
  • Provide clinical supervision support to staff from own and other service groups/teams where appropriate
  • Contribute to the development and delivery of CPD programmes for own profession.
  • Develop skills in own area of professional post-graduate teaching, training and supervision and consultation.
  • Contribute to appropriate pre
- and post-qualification training.

clinical supervision support to staff from own and other service groups/teams where appropriate


SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

  • Contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Service Group's operational policies and procedures.
  • Participate in MDT and multi-agency meetings
  • Share responsibility with other team members, as appropriate, for implementing service developments.
  • Contribute to the management of workloads of appropriate staff within the framework of the Service Group policies and procedures.
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