Community Mental Health Transition Practitioner
Band 6
Main area: Transition and Recovery - Mental Health Services Grade Band 6
Contract: Permanent | Full time | 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6789751
Site: Brooker Centre | Town: Runcorn
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum | Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/12/2024 23:59 | Interview date: 06/01/2025
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 take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognize the benefits of the values, skills, training, and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
The Mental Health Recovery Team/CMHT is looking to recruit a Band 6 Mental Health Transition Practitioner to support transition for young adults (18-25) into the CMHT/Recovery Team and connect the young adult to their chosen pathway and interventions.
The successful applicant will engage the young adult, carer, and referrer prior to referral, where possible, and support the young adult to make informed decisions around their treatment plan and transition. The Transition Practitioner will strive to achieve the transition standards identified by NICE and will ensure the Mersey Care principles of transition are promoted.
Main duties of the job
The Transition Practitioner will work within the CMHT/Recovery but will display initiative and flexibility to support all potential referrals of young adults (18-25 years of age). They will support young adults for a limited time period until the young adult has successfully achieved their transition goals and begun treatment within the team. They will act as their keyworker for this period of time, helping the young adult to navigate a complex mental health system and will support in being a point of contact for the young adult and carer.
The Transition Practitioner will regularly analyze the performance against the transition standards to understand where quality improvements can be made and to help shape the role across Community Mental Health 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Community Mental Health Transition Practitioner will support transition for Children and Young People, aged 18-25, from Mersey Care Children and Young Persons Services (CYPS) and Alder Hey to Adult Community Mental Health Services. The post holder will also ensure the principles of transition are applied when transferring between other Adult Mental Health (AMH) service lines i.e., Inpatient/Urgent Care to Community Mental Health services.
The Community Mental Health Transition Practitioner will become an integral member of the Community Mental Health MDT, whilst also working closely with CYP Services and local communities to understand and provide a seamless and consistent offer within the wider system.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree level training or equivalent
* Professional registration i.e. NMC, Social Work England, Occupational Health and Care Professions Council
* At least one year’s additional post-registration knowledge and experience, allowing autonomy in practice
* Developed knowledge and skills to teach and educate other professionals
* Evidence of CPD and working towards master level qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of providing care for people with mental health difficulties within a secondary care environment and working as a care co-ordinator/key worker
* Experience of working autonomously and recognizing professional limitations
* Experience of developing and implementing collaborative care plans
* Experience of developing risk formulations and managing risk accordingly
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team and contributing to an MDT approach to care delivery
* Experience of supporting families and carers
* Experience of supporting and mentoring students and other junior members of staff
* Experience of utilizing a problem-solving approach and implementing quality improvement ideas
* Evidence of keeping up to date with relevant literature and evidence-based practice
* Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
* Knowledge and experience in safeguarding children and/or adults
* Experience of working with external partners within the wider system
* Experience of working across CYPS and AMHS
* Experience of working as a transition practitioner
Skills
* Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation
* Ability to work independently and also as part of a team
* Ability to engage service users and carers and work collaboratively to develop and implement a transition plan
* Ability to utilize appropriate measuring tools and generate/review associated reports
* Ability to problem solve
* Ability to identify and implement risk management strategies
* Ability to provide education/training to relevant stakeholders
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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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.
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 to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enroll for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
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