Main area: Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
26 hours per week
Job ref: 350-CC6648518-A
Site: Hollins Park
Town: Warrington
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/12/2024 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. Furthermore we 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. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women. The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants. The service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist services.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the effective provision of Perinatal Mental and Infant Mental Health Services to an identified caseload of women. The core purpose of the team in which the post-holder will work, is to deliver high quality, tailored interventions in maternal mental health and attachment based approaches to mothers and infants. The service will have a key role in raising the profile and standards of mental health care for expectant and newly delivered mothers across universal and specialist 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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (ie Registered Mental Health Nurse)
* Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training
* Skills and experience in delivering mental health training and education to non mental health professionals
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
* Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
* Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector
* Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training
* Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training
* An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/ Mental Health Capacity Act requirements
* Ability to produce well written reports
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings
* Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions
* Ability to manage risk and plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans
* Able to work independently and as part of a team
* Ability to manage own time and that of the team’s
* Ability to work flexibly and be mobile across a geographical area
* Computer literacy including analysis of data or willingness to train in such
* Excellent clinical assessment skills
* Ability to manage change in a positive manner
Person specification
* Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (ie Registered Mental Health Nurse)
* Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training
* Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training
* Working within a community mental health setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector
* Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
Experience
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment
* Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
* Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings
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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 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.
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