An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team. 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.
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.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children’s and adult’s barred list.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude that 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 recognize 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.
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, including 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 while safely reducing costs.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The toll for the Mersey Gateway Bridge will be paid along with regular travel expenses.
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.
1. 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.
2. To undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
3. 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.
4. To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s services.
5. To participate directly in the team’s duty rotas.
6. To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial, and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
7. 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 organizing multi-agency meetings.
8. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person, and carers.
9. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
10. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.
11. 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.
12. To undertake risk management for all children, including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
13. To identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described in the guidelines of the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies.
14. To maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, ensuring information is accurate and complies with the Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
15. To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate, including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
16. To work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
COMMUNICATION
1. 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.
2. To effectively communicate professional opinions, verbally and in writing, to other relevant professionals.
3. To attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
4. To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to children, young people, families, and other professionals within young people’s services.
5. To communicate effectively with children, young people, and their carers when in crisis and in challenging family situations.
6. To organize and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews.
7. To elicit highly sensitive information using engagement/communication skills appropriate to the young person’s stage of development.
8. To work as part of an integrated multi-professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals.
9. To provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.
TEACHING, TRAINING, AND SUPERVISION
1. To participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice, and commit to continued development.
2. 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.
3. To provide specific training and/or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes.
4. 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.
5. To assess trainees' competencies and write placement reports for trainees in line with Trust and professional body regulations.
6. To work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE, including joint working, consultation, and training aiming to develop joint working across agencies.
7. To maintain registration/accreditation requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body in line with their professional qualification.
8. To be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY, AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1. To identify priorities within and initiatives within the service and advise managers on the level of resources for service development.
2. To contribute to the service’s evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate.
3. To contribute to recruitment processes by assisting with shortlisting, interviewing, and the induction of recruited staff.
4. To support the workload of colleagues within the service through co-working practices.
5. To contribute to service developments.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
To maintain 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
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. To maintain professional body registration.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025.
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