Main area: Triage And Response - Mental Health Services
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Variety of shifts between 7am-midnight for Triage car and 24 hour service for Place of Safety & Psychiatric clinical decisions unit)
Job ref: 350-MHC6798598
Site: Liverpool/ Warrington and Southport
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 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 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.
Job overview
The Mental Health Triage and Response service is a dynamic and progressive team which has achieved awards at a national level for the work it is doing to support emergency services and service users experiencing mental health crisis.
Due to the continued expansion of our team we are looking to recruit additional mental health practitioners who want to contribute to the development of the service and who are looking for the next step in their career.
Main duties of the job
The role of the Senior Practitioner within the Mental Health Triage and Response Team will include providing a response to Street Triage Car Service, the management of Section 136 and the operating of the identified Places of Safety and Clinical Decision Unit.
You will work collaboratively alongside other Registered Mental Health Practitioners, healthcare support workers and also with Police forces, NWAS, Local Authorities, Acute Trust colleagues and Mental Health Services.
The Mental Health Triage and Response Team and Clinical Decision Unit will support service users presenting in crisis and ensure that their needs are met within the identified places of safety and assist with a timely assessment and safety planning.
You will need to demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, problem solve, recognise risk and be able to effectively support the service user.
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
1. Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision as per Trust policy.
2. Assist with screening and telephone triage of referrals, prioritizing as appropriate. Provide information for referrers, service users and carers.
3. Formulate, contribute and participate in the development and implementation of specialist assessments, including risk, with patients requiring crisis care.
4. Carry out generic and specialist assessments including risk with patients requiring crisis care.
5. Provide short-term evidence-based practices and fixed-term interventions.
6. Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non-statutory organisations.
7. Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
8. Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
9. Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary Team.
10. Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
* Evidence of post-registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
* Working towards master level education
Experience
* Post registration experience in mental health.
* Evidence of leadership and management skills.
* Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads.
* Evidence of supervising staff.
* Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies.
* Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers.
* Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
* Experience in change management and policy formulation.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Knowledge/Skills
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
* Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit.
* Leadership Skills.
* Excellent oral and written skills.
* Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
Ability to contribute to 24/7 working
* Is the person able to work shifts including nights?
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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.
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Name: Owen Winsland
Job title: Mental Health Triage Response Team Manager
Email address: owen.winsland@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07385491118
Due to the specialized nature of this role, pre-application discussion with the team is recommended.
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