Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Widnes, WA8 7TD |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6299251/350-CC6299251 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Practitioner (SMHP) within our established Mental Health Support Team in Schools (MHST), based in Halton.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
The role is to support and undertake the functions of MHSTs. The post holder will:
Hold a caseload to provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health problems within the THRIVE and MHST Framework for service delivery.
Work closely with allocated schools and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE framework including considering and accepting referrals via school consultation and offering advice/training to schools along with whole school approach interventions.
Support and supervise educational mental health practitioners in their day-to-day duties, providing risk, safeguarding and case management support.
Undertake Duty responsibilities within the team and take a lead on allocated tasks/roles plus engagement and participation events/activities hosted by the team.
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 demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
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 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. 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Intervention
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience.
To undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
1. To provide direct therapeutic interventions dependent on clinical competence and experience in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.
2. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
3. To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
4. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s services.
5. To participate directly in the team’s duty rotas.
6. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
7. 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 including organising multi-agency meetings.
8. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.
9. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of specialist knowledge
10. 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.
11. To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network.
12. Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
13. Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies.
14. Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
15. To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
16. To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
17. Work in partnership to deliver a range of mental health interventions. This may involve group work or direct work with children/young people as well as offering specialist mental health-based consultation, and advice around mental health.
18. Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care provided including consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated.
19. Work with clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs.
20. If working within MHST, Providing supervision and caseload management to the new EMHP (dependent on clinical competence and experience)
21. Participate in MDT discussion within relevant locality including waiting list management contribution.
22. Work in partnership with young people and their families to inform assessment, need and rationale for treatment intervention.
23. To work collaboratively with team members and supervisors to ensure safe working practice and positive outcomes for children and young people.
24. To follow safeguarding processes as appropriate or required.
25. When working within MHSTs the post holder will be expected to lead on engagement and participation events/activities hosted by the team and support delivery of the whole school approach offer by the team.
COMMUNICATION
1. To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi and uni disciplinary care. To effectively communicate professional opinions, verbally and in writing to other relevant professionals.
2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
3. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to children, young people and families and to other professionals within young people’s services.
4. Communicate effectively with children, young people and their carers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations
5. Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews.
Elicit highly sensitive information using engagement/ communication skills which are appropriate to the young person’s stage of development.
6. Work, as part of an integrated multi professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals
7. Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.
8. If working in MHST the post holder will be expected to build close working relationships with schools including Mental Health Leads / Mental Health First Aid trained staff.
9. Ensure that all members of the multi-disciplinary team, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others are informed/updated of changes involving current care plans, progress, mental state, and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
10. Liaise with and advise CYP and families, local authority and other statutory bodies and third sector agencies including children’s safeguarding, as necessary.
11. Communicate sensitive information to carers and relatives.
12. Maintain accurate written records on the electronic record system of the Trust.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION.
1. Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and committed to continued development.
2. To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills in line the transformation of children and young people’s mental health services.
3. To provide specific training and /or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes, including schools where appropriate.
4. To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different background so that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to positive change. To assess trainees’ competencies and write placement reports for trainees in line with Trust, professional body regulations.
5. Work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE. This will include joint working; consultation; and training aiming to develop joint working across agencies.
6. Maintaining registration / accreditation requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body in line with their professional qualification.
7. Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour.
8. Adhere to all policies and procedures outline by the trust.
9. Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1. Identify priorities and initiatives within the service and advice managers on the level of resources for service development.
2. Contribute to the service’s evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate.
3. To contribute to recruitment processes by assisting with shortlisting, interviewing and the induction of recruited staff.
4. To support the workload of colleagues within the service through co-working practices.
5. Contribute to service developments.
6. Share clinical skills and knowledge and support the development of others.
7. Reflect on personal and professional development and learning needs, maintaining skills and practice.
8. Support and guide others to reflect and develop.
9. Provide mentoring and support for other learners (subject to professional standards and training requirements)
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Jun 2024