Band 6
Main area: Adult Eating Disorders Service
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 350-MHC6916266
Site: Knowsley Resource & Recovery Centre
Town: Prescot
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 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 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.
Job overview
The Adult Eating Disorders Service in Knowsley & St Helens is looking to recruit a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner to our welcoming and supportive team.
We are a multidisciplinary, community-based team including Clinical Psychologists, Assistant Psychologists, a Consultant Psychiatrist, Dietitian, OT, CBT Therapist and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners. The team provides assessment and treatment for adults with eating disorders.
We are hoping to recruit a Registered Mental Health Practitioner to work with us. An interest in therapeutic interventions would be welcomed and there will be opportunities for professional development within the role.
The position is full-time and permanent. We are based at Knowsley Resource & Recovery Centre and our office hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Mental Health Practitioner within the team, you will work within the MDT to provide assessments, treatment and support for our service users with eating disorders and their carers.
You will hold a clinical caseload and provide case management for adults with complex needs related to their eating disorder and other mental health needs. You will be required to liaise with other professionals and services to help provide the best care to our service users.
The main duties include:
1. To provide high quality, evidence-based care for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
2. To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
3. To function as named nurse/care coordinator to service users undertaking assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery-focused model of care.
4. To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
5. To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
6. To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
7. To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
8. To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
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.
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. To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
2. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
3. To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care.
5. To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
6. To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
7. To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence-based and research findings.
8. To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
9. To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
11. To have accurate and up-to–date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN
* Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
* Working towards master level education
Knowledge/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.
* Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
* Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
* Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
* Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
* Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
* Leadership Skills
* Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
* Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
* Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
* Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff.
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs’ responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
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.
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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