Educational Mental Health Practitioner - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Warrington) Band 5
An opportunity has arisen for a hard working and compassionate professional to join the newly established children and young peoples Mental Health Support Team in Warrington (permanent post).
Interviews are planned for 24th June 2024
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems
Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services
Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services
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.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.Clinical
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependent on clinical competence and
To undertake assessments and treatment based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
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 with mild to moderate mental health problems.
Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education Help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.
Support and facilitate staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.
Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health 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 and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
To deliver care, 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.
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 To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children's Board and Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding
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.
trust's service user participation agenda.
Communication
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