An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team. The Crisis Response Team provides interventions to young people at the point of mental health crisis. The team provides a 24/7 service which allows for flexibility from a 9-5 working pattern.
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 (CYPMH) 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.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children's and adult's barred list. Part-time hours will be considered. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users and their carers, embracing the core values of the organisation and adopting the principles of Recovery and THRIVE.
The principles will recognize the need to:
* Promote safe practices
* Value the aims of service users
* Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
* Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
* Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and is continually developing innovative and creative practices, so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hard-working approach.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence and experience.
2. To undertake assessments, treatment, and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.
3. 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 to the service.
4. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
5. To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and young people's services.
7. To participate directly in the team's duty rotas.
8. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial, and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
9. To deliver care coordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning, and risk management processes are maintained.
10. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person, and carers.
11. To maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, ensuring information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body standards.
12. To engage with routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate.
13. To work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families and contribute to the trust's service user participation agenda.
Qualifications:
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health knowledge and other interventions, and to contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes of clinical work within the service.
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. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
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