Senior Health Practitioner CYP LD/ASC | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	18 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	18 July 2025
Location:	Knowsley, L35 0BU
Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7280783/350-CC7280783

Summary

A brand new and exciting opportunity has arisen for 1.0 WTE Senior Health Practitioners to join Merseycare's childrens services at an innovative point in creating an Intensive Support Team (IST) for Children and Young People with learning disiblities and or neurodiversity concerns. We are looking for individuals who are core/ none core by discipine and hoping to attract a diverse workforce and skill set including a nurse, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, creative, team players and want to join us in making a difference in children and young people/families lives. It would be preferrable if candidates had experience of working with CYP with complex needs, mental health, learning disibilities and neurodiversity.

This brand new team has a go live date of Spring 2025 there is an expectation for candidates to be in post for this date. The team will be a pan borough service covering Knowsley, St Helens, Halton and Warrington, milage expenses will be paid. All additional training will be provided. Full IT Kit provided, free onsite parking at base site, hybrid working and flexible working agreements will always be considered in line with service delivery.

Job Purpose:
As a Senior Health Practitioner, the post holder will manage a defined case-load with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) and their parents/carers, and evidence based client centred care to children and young people with varied health needs including learning disabilities, neurodiversity, challenging behaviour and mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.


The post holder will be expected to undertake assessments with young people, provide brief interventions within the scope of their core qualification, advice, consultation and supervision to children and young people, and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.

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.



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

Please see attached JD for all main role expectations and responsibilities.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.




This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025