Main area: Community CAMHS
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week)
Job ref: 350-CC6880553
Site: The Alders, Town Warrington
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/01/2025 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We also welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team in Warrington CYPMHS. As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client-centred care to children and young people with mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation, and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.
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.
Main duties of the job
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:
1. Promote safe practices
2. Value the aims of service users
3. Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
4. Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
5. Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and is continually developing innovative and creative practice, so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hardworking approach.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence and experience. To undertake assessments, treatment, and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
To provide direct therapeutic interventions 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 work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s services.
To participate directly in the team's duty rotas.
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 produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child, young person, and carers.
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
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.
To provide consultation, advice, and guidance to junior colleagues. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network.
Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies.
Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with the Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
To work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
COMMUNICATION
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.
Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to children, young people, and families and to other professionals within young people’s services.
Communicate effectively with children, young people, and their carers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations.
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.
Work, as part of an integrated multi-professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals.
Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice, and be committed to continued development.
To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills in line with the transformation of children and young people’s mental health services.
To provide specific training and/or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes.
To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different backgrounds 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.
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.
Maintaining registration/accreditation requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body in line with their professional qualification.
Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
Identify priorities within and initiatives within the service and advise managers on the level of resources for service development.
Contribute to the service’s evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate.
To contribute to recruitment processes by assisting with shortlisting, interviewing, and the induction of recruited staff.
To support the workload of colleagues within the service through co-working practices.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health knowledge and other interventions.
To contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes of clinical work within the service.
Participate in research, evaluation, and audit in response to the clinical and professional interest of the post, and to monitor standards, quality, and consumer reaction to the provision of services in accordance with NICE guidance.
Participate in appropriate audit, quality assurance programmes, and research as directed.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision in accordance with Trust Clinical Governance Standards and the Code of Practice and ethical guidelines of the professional body.
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD training in consultation with the post holder's service manager to meet professional body requirements for CPD and registration.
To contribute to the development of best practice in the service by taking part in regular supervision and appraisal and maintaining awareness of current developments in the field.
To maintain professional body registration.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Must have qualification in at least one of the following areas: Individual or group Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-centred counselling, Systemic Family Practice, Webster Stratton, Incredible years/parenting groups professional.
* Must have professional qualification and registration with an appropriate accrediting body (i.e., HCPC/BACAP), or equivalent from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) approved accredited register.
* Degree or equivalent level of experience.
* Post Graduate or equivalent level of experience.
* Core Professional qualification in one of the following areas: Nursing, Social work, Psychology, Occupational therapy.
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families.
* Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
* Experience in and the ability to undertake case management and the supervision of students as required.
* Knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings.
* Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
* Experience in providing risk assessments.
* Must demonstrate the ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately.
* Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
* Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist therapies in specific difficult-to-treat groups.
* A level of knowledge of theory and practice of specialist therapy/interventions.
* Experience of delivering teaching and training.
* Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.
* Information technology and management skills using word processing, spreadsheets, database, and presentation software.
* Level of knowledge and/or training in other psychological therapies.
* Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change-oriented
Skills
* Interpersonal skills of a high level to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.
* Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead a multi-agency care plan/risk management plan.
* Knowledge of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an almost 11,000-strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors, nurses, clinical staff, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales, and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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