Community Mental Health Transition Practitioner
Band 6
Main area: Community Transition - Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6812880
Site: South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 19/01/2025
Job overview
We are looking to recruit six Band 6 Mental Health Transition Practitioners to support transition for young adults aged 18-25 into Community Mental Health Teams across Liverpool & Sefton. The successful applicants will engage with the young adult, carer, and referrer prior to referral, where possible, and support the young adult in making informed decisions around their treatment plan and transition.
The Transition Practitioners will strive to achieve the transition standards identified by NICE and will ensure the Mersey Care principles of transition are promoted.
The Transition Practitioners will become integral members of the Community Mental Health Team/MDT while working closely with Children and Young People services and developing good working relationships with services across the wider system, supporting 18-25 transitions throughout primary care and VCFSEs.
Please note these posts will be based at the following HUBs:
1. Moss House HUB x 1
2. Norris Green HUB x 1
3. Southport Community HUB x 1
Main duties of the job
The Transition Practitioner will work within the CMHT, displaying initiative and flexibility to support all potential referrals of young adults aged 18-25. They will support young adults for a limited time period until the young adult has successfully achieved their transition goals and begun treatment within the team, acting as their keyworker during this time.
The Transition Practitioner will regularly analyze performance against the transition standards to identify areas for quality improvement and help shape the role across Community Mental Health Services.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services supporting physical and 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 while safely reducing costs.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Oversee the implementation of NICE Quality Statements for transition for children and young people aged 18-25 between CYP to AMHS and AMHS to AMHS services.
2. Coordinate transition planning starting from school year 9 (aged 13 to 14) or immediately upon entry into children’s services.
3. Ensure young people have a coordinated transition plan and annual meetings to review transition planning.
4. Assign a named worker to coordinate care and support before, during, and after transfer.
5. Facilitate meetings for young people with a practitioner from each adult service they will transition to before the transfer.
6. Contact young people who do not attend initial meetings or appointments to provide further opportunities to engage.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree level training or equivalent
* Professional registration (e.g., NMC, Social Work England, Occupational Health and Care Professions Council)
* At least one year of additional post-registration knowledge and experience
* Knowledge and skills to teach and educate other professionals
* Evidence of CPD and working towards a master’s level qualification
Experience/Knowledge
* Experience in providing care for individuals with mental health difficulties within a secondary care environment
* Experience as a care coordinator/key worker
* Experience in developing and implementing collaborative care plans
* Experience in risk formulation and management
* Experience in a multidisciplinary team environment
* Experience supporting families and carers
* Experience mentoring students and junior staff
* Evidence of keeping current with relevant literature and evidence-based practice
* Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
* Knowledge and experience in safeguarding
* Experience working across CYPS and AMHS
* Experience as a transition practitioner
Skills
* Up-to-date knowledge of relevant legislation
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team
* Ability to engage service users and carers collaboratively
* Ability to utilize measuring tools and generate/review reports
* Ability to problem-solve
* Ability to implement risk management strategies
* Ability to provide education/training to stakeholders
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change-oriented
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Only applicants who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for interviews.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum criteria for the role. Indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
For reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk.
The Trust reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and will require a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Neil Doolin
Job title: HUB Manager
Email address: neil.doolin@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01513308500
Ray Clucas HUB Manager Baird House: ray.clucas@merseycare.nhs.uk
Sharon Ball HUB Manager Southport: sharon.ball@merseycare.nhs.uk
Nicola Woods Acting HUB Manager Norris Green: nicola.woods@merseycare.nhs.uk
Martina Bellmon HUB Manager Moss House: martina.bellmon@merseycare.nhs.uk
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