Mental Health Practitioner - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Are you a Learning Disability Nurse Practitioner with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? If so, we want to hear from you.
We are delighted to offer a position within our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Warrington. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing evidence-based interventions.
As a Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions to children and young people and their families/carers referred into the service.
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.
These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
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 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.
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.
CLINICAL
To hold a caseload of assessments, treatment 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.
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 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.
To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in cooperation with the child young person and carers
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.
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 have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
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 Children's Board and the 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.
Please refer to attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities and duties.
More jobs from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
-
Assistant Psychologist
Liverpool, United Kingdom - 2 days ago
-
Children and Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner
Runcorn, United Kingdom - 1 day ago
-
Cypmhs Support Worker
St Helens, United Kingdom - 3 weeks ago
-
Clerical Assistant
Huyton, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Receptionist
Liverpool, United Kingdom - 1 week ago
-
Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
Huyton, United Kingdom - 3 weeks ago