Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | Huyton, L360UB |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7759299/350-CC770030-A |
Summary
The post holder will work within the parent Infant mental health service (BABS) Team supporting children and families with there mental health and attachment relationships.
The post-holder will also provide interventions ranging from attachment informed therapeutic interventions, video interactive guidance, psychoeducation, parent interventions, training to internal and external partners on relationships and parent infant attachment, along with supporting children and families with mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
The post holder will have a BABCP or a BPS registration.
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refers unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary
Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low intensity psychological intervention. .
Educate and involve family members/carers if required attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in Treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity.
Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis.
Respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors in clinical practice.
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.
The post will involve providing specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to vulnerable families in the antenatal/postnatal period via Parent Infant Mental Health Assessments, psychological formulation and various parent-infant interventions.
The main focus of the BABS work is supporting parents and infants to build secure bonds and attachment relationships, and good parent infant mental health in the antenatal/postnatal period.
The service is outcome driven, thus evaluation (carrying out pre and post measures and gathering feedback from parents) is key in evidencing BABS’s impact, outcomes and cost benefits.
It would be an advantage if the post holder has previous experience and/or an interest and passion for working in the specialist field of parent infant mental health; in particular, experience of working on an outreach, community-basis supporting vulnerable families in the community.
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Feb 2026