Main area: Early Intervention Community - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6980623
Site: Harry Blackman House
Town: St Helens
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 03/03/2025
Job overview
The St Helens & Knowsley Early Intervention in Psychosis Team are looking for a full time practitioner, operating working hours of 9am-5pm.
Are you looking for a change in career and do you like working in a challenging and rewarding setting? Do you want to build on and enhance the high level of skills and experience you already possess? Why not consider this opportunity to join the Early Intervention in Psychosis team? The service works with people between the ages of 14 - 65 who are experiencing a first episode of psychosis.
We are looking for qualified, motivated, enthusiastic, self-directed mental health practitioners to join the team as a Care Co-ordinator with opportunities to be part of our assessment team. You will be involved in the patient journey from triage, assessment through to offering interventions supporting service users to recover from psychosis.
The service delivers both managerial supervision and clinical supervision from specialist staff. There is in-house training on all aspects of the service including psychological formulation, Family Interventions, CBT skills and assessment skills. Preferably you will have experience of working in a community setting, but this is not essential.
Main duties of the job
Service Users will fall under the relevant team based on their GP location and catchment area. As a practitioner, you will be based in one team so that we can deliver care safely, efficiently, and effectively. If successful, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering a range of evidence-based interventions that fall within NICE guidelines.
Each team consists of a lead Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Leader, Clinical Lead, Care Coordinators, Psychology Team, Family Therapists, Support Time Recovery Workers, and IPS workers. The successful candidate will work alongside all members of the team to ensure a holistic, recovery focus is maintained throughout the service user pathway.
The successful candidate will also work in partnership with other agencies/teams, such as CJLT, CRHT, social care and addictions services, to promote a collaborative focus on care.
We fully promote professional/personal training and development, and there are opportunities to train in-house and CPD and develop your clinical skills through supervision, complex case discussions, and reflective practice. We also provide CAARMS training, which is a specialist assessment for psychosis, and further training on how to deliver family interventions.
We are a supportive team, and the post holder would have support from the Service Managers and Clinical Leads.
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. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
2. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
3. To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.
5. To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
6. To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
7. To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
8. To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
9. To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
11. To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communications.
12. To give and receive accurate up-to-date information regarding service users’ care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc.
13. To have accurate and up-to–date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
14. Where appropriate to job role take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.
15. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.
16. Provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested.
17. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.
18. To react pro-actively in cases of service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
19. To actively participate in team meetings.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Ability to prioritise workload proactively
* Committed to raising standards in clinical areas
* Capable of working on own initiative
* Able to involve and listen to others
Experience/Knowledge
* Demonstrable experience at senior nurse level
* Experience in relevant speciality
* Experience of on-going professional development
* Knowledge of health service and initiatives
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Demonstrate leadership and motivational skills
* Experience of leading and managing change
Qualifications
* First level registered general nurse
* Current NMC registration
* Evidence of study at degree level
* Leadership Qualification
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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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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.
Name: David Atherton
Job title: Clinical Team Manager
Email address: david.atherton@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01744 415 612
Additional information:
Sinead Cardwell - Clinical Team Lead - sinead.cardwell@merseycare.nhs.uk
Nicola Fishwick - Deputy Team Manager - nicola.fishwick@merseycare.nhs.uk
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 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists.
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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