Band 5
Main area Halton MHST Mental Health Practitioner: Core Grade Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5)
Job ref: 350-CC6959564
Site: Halton MHST
Town: Halton
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 26/02/2025
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 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.
Job overview
Mental health practitioners (MHPs) work across education and healthcare to provide mental health support for children and young people in schools and colleges.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Core Mental Health Practitioner within the Halton Mental Health Support Teams in Schools service. In line with the government's priority to increase access and availability of mental health and wellbeing support for children and young people, the MHP role is an exciting opportunity to deliver evidence-based early interventions for children and young people.
There will be an opportunity for the successful candidate to undertake funded training to become a PGDip Educational Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP).
Please note that the advert may close early if we receive a significant number of applications.
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates will be employed on a full-time basis based within Halton and will play a key role as a member of the Halton Mental Health Support Team. They will have the responsibility for delivering the 3 core functions of an MHST to support the mild to moderate mental health and wellbeing needs for children and young people in allocated schools.
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. 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.
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
As a Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client centred care to children and young people with mild to moderate mental health needs within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide assessment and interventions to children and young people and their families/carers referred into the service.
Principal Responsibilities
Clinical
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependent on clinical competence and experience.
2. To undertake assessments and treatment 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 into the service with mild to moderate mental health problems.
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 and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To participate directly in the team’s duty rotas in line with the grading of the post.
7. To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
8. To deliver care, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained.
9. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person and carers.
10. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.
11. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.
12. Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies.
13. Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
Person specification
Knowledge/Experience
* Able to communicate effectively
* Possess good listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP, or Social Worker
* Degree
* Evidence of post registration study.
Skills
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Ability to carry out 1:1 therapeutic mental health intervention with children and families
* Ability to conduct mental health assessments of children and young people
* Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
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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. 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.
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