Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Following a successful bid the North Mersey Region has been selected as a pilot site to implement the Integrated Care Framework (Community) including the establishment of Complex Needs Teams in Liverpool and Sefton.

The intention is to strengthen existing community services and enable collaboration with the vision to facilitate integrated trauma-informed responsive systems.

The target young people are those who present with high-risk/harm behaviours and vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties which are persistent, severe and framed by social contexts.

This may include involvement in youth justice services, NEET, substance misuse, have multiple adverse childhood experiences, who have a learning disability and/or autism, or who engage in sexually harmful behaviour.

The Integrated Care Framework (Community) aims to meet 6 overarching objectives:

Improved CYP (Children and Young People) wellbeing
Reduction in highrisk behaviours
Reduced mental health concern
Organisations are more traumainformed
Improved purpose/occupation
Improved stability of home

The North Mersey vanguard are developing a trauma informed, enhanced case management model which aims to build upon existing infrastructure to strengthen pathways and collaborative working and deliver a multi-agency response thus achieving positive long-term outcomes and reducing presentations and admissions to hospitals and care.

We are looking to recruit experienced Senior Mental Health Practitioners who will work within multi-disciplinary Complex Needs Teams in each locality (Liverpool and Sefton).

Roles and responsibilities includes consultation, supporting case formulation, specialist assessments, evidence based interventions, case management, supervision to members of the MDT (Multi-Disciplinary Team) and external practitioners the Complex Needs Teams are integrated with, training etc

The post holder will require significant experience in working with those who present with complex needs and high risk and have an experience in managing complex multi-agency relationships.

They will also have significant knowledge and experience of children, young people, families and systems impacted by complex developmental trauma.

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year.

In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man.

The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Alder Park building in the nearby borough of Sefton.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites.

We are also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours.

At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

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
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 postgraduate teaching, training and supervision and consultation.
Contribute to appropriate pre

- and post-qualification training

Contribute to the development, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the Service Group's operational policies and procedures
Participate in MDT and multiagency meetings