Early Intervention Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Are you looking for a change in career and do you like working in a challenging and rewarding setting? Do you want to build on and enhance the high level of skills and experience you already possess, why not consider this opportunity to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team? The service works with people between the ages of who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis.

We are looking for qualified, motivated, enthusiastic, self-directed mental health practitioners to join the team as a Care Co-ordinator.

You will be involved in the patient journey from triage, assessment through to offering interventions supporting service users to recover from psychosis.

The service delivers both managerial supervision and clinical supervision from specialist staff.

There is in-house training on all aspects of the service including psychological formulation, Family Interventions, CBT skills and assessment skills.

Preferably you will have experience of working in a community setting, but this is not essential.

Short listing 20th July 2023

Interviews 28th July 2023

Liverpool Early Intervention Team is divided into two teams (North Liverpool and South/Central Liverpool). Service Users will fall under the relevant team based on their GP location and catchment area.

As a practitioner, you will be based in one team so that we can deliver care safely, efficiently, and effectively.

If successful, you will be part of a multi disciplinary team delivering a range of evidence-based interventions that fall within NICE guidelines.

We fully promote professional/personal training and development, and there are opportunities to train in-house and CPD and develop your clinical skills through supervision, complex case discussions, and reflective practice.

We also provide CAARMS training, which is a specialist assessment for psychosis, and further training on how to deliver family interventions.

We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Service Managers, Clinical Leads.

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.

To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning,

implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.

To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members carers and significant others.
To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user's care.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communications.
To give and receive accurate up-to-date information regarding service users' care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the trust.
To have accurate and up-to-date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
Where appropriate to job role take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered