Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L35 5DR |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7992160/350-CC7992160 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Children and Young People's Mental Health Service in Knowsley.
We are a multi disciplinary team consisting of psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, therapists and support workers who assess, treat and signpost referrals received for children and young people displaying mental health difficulties.
The successful candidate will be a key part of the multidisciplinary team, with caseload management responsibilities. They should have excellent communication skills to communicate with both internal and external professionals along with the young people and families that we work with.
Knowsley CYPMHS is part of the THRIVE offer within Knowsley and the successful candidate will hold a key role in ensuring the effective use of this.
We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our team which has recently won Team of the Month within Mersey Care and a Good Plus QRV result.
We are offering one 37.5 hour post and one 30 hour post.
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience.
Undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
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.
Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s service.
To exercise responsibility and autonomy, 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 including organising multi-agency meetings.
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.
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.
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 engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical record
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
Work in partnership to deliver a range of mental health interventions. Thismay involve group work or direct work with children/young people as well asoffering specialist mental health-based consultation, and advice around mentalhealth.
Be responsible and ensure the effective co-ordination of clinical care providedincluding consideration to safeguarding and clinical risk issues where indicated
Work with clinical staff to identify children and young people with emerging mental health needs.
If working within MHST, Providing supervision and caseload management to the new EMHP (dependent on clinical competence and experience)
Participate in MDT discussion within relevant locality including waiting list management contribution.
Workinpartnershipwithyoungpeopleandtheirfamiliestoinformassessment,needandrationalefortreatmentintervention.
Toworkcollaborativelywithteammembersandsupervisorstoensuresafeworkingpracticeandpositiveoutcomesforchildrenandyoungpeople.
Tofollowsafeguardingprocessesasappropriateorrequired.
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.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Jun 2026