Main area: Children and Young Persons Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-CC7027250
Site: Thorn Road Clinic
Town: Runcorn
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 26/03/2025
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
Spread your wings at Mersey Care and apply for a role within our Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services (CAMHS). We offer a wealth of training and further career opportunities within our services.
Halton CAMHS delivers specialist mental health support and interventions for children and families across the borough and offers a wide range of direct and indirect support and intervention. We work closely with our colleagues across a variety of agencies to offer holistic care and remain person centred in our ethos.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a team, managing and coordinating care for children in Halton along with developing skills with a high level of support from the MDT. We offer preceptorship for nurses and would support ASYE for social workers and encourage newly qualified staff to apply and start your career in Halton.
You'll be given opportunities to develop your career from day one, so if you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, with regular formal CPD opportunities to further develop your potential.
Young people are our future - make a difference to a young person's life! Spread your wings and apply now.
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
Please view the job descriptions and person specifications for the role and consider this when completing an application for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP Social Worker
* Degree
* Evidence of post registration study.
* Approved training in phlebotomy
Experience
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
* A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Possess good listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to work as a member of a team
* Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding:
* Effective Care Co-ordination
* Care Planning and evaluation
* Quality and clinical audit
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.
* Appreciate the process of standard setting and audit
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE
At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.
You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.
You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.
You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.
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