An opportunity has arisen for a Senior Mental Health Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team. The Crisis Response Team provides interventions to young people at the point of mental health crisis. The team provides a 24/7 service which allows for flexibility from a 9-5 working pattern. As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence-based client-centered care to children and young people with mental health (CYPMH) problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultation, and supervision to both colleagues and external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.
This post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check with children's and adult's barred list.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers. They will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
1. Promote safe practices
2. Value the aims of service users
3. Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
4. Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
5. Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and is continually developing innovative and creative practice - the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hard-working approach.
About us
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, 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. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
CLINICAL
1. To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work depending on clinical competence and experience.
2. To undertake assessments, treatment, and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework 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.
4. Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.
5. To work sensitively with children and young people from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.
6. To be responsible for screening referrals to children and Young Peoples services.
7. To participate directly in the team's duty rotas.
8. To exercise responsibility and autonomy for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.
9. To deliver care coordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning, and risk management processes are maintained.
10. To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in cooperation with the child, young person, and carers.
11. To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
12. To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance service provision to young people and their families.
13. To provide consultation, advice, and guidance to junior colleagues and promote effective multi-agency work.
14. To maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records.
15. To engage with routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate.
16. To work collaboratively with children, young people, and their families.
COMMUNICATION
1. To communicate skilled and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation, and treatment plans of clients.
2. Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young peoples mental health services.
3. Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information to children, young people, families, and other professionals.
4. Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews.
5. Elicit highly sensitive information using engagement skills appropriate to the young person's stage of development.
6. Work as part of an integrated multi-professional team.
7. Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION
1. Participate in regular supervision and engage in reflective practice.
2. Provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills.
3. Contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines.
4. Work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE.
5. Maintain registration/accreditation requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body.
6. Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour.
MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
1. Identify priorities and initiatives within the service.
2. Contribute to the service's evidence-based practice.
3. Support the workload of colleagues through co-working practices.
4. Contribute to service developments.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION
To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health and other interventions. Participate in research, evaluation, and audit in response to clinical and professional interests.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
1. To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision.
2. To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice.
3. To maintain professional body registration.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Core Profession Social Work or Nurse with up-to-date Professional Registration.
* Assessor/Mentorship Training applicable to qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with CAMHS.
* Experience of mentorship, supervision, and coordination of staff.
* Experience of Care Planning process.
* Working in a multi-agency framework.
* Demonstrate a contribution to change management process.
* Experience in positive leadership of a team.
* Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches.
* Recovery Model.
* Mental Health Act (1983).
* Effective Care Coordination.
* Relevant National policies and guidance.
* Evidence-based and reflective practice.
* Mental Capacity Act.
* Vulnerable Adults Procedure and Child Protection.
* Safety, Privacy, and Dignity Guidelines.
Values
Essential
* Continuous Improvement.
* Accountability.
* Respectfulness.
* Enthusiasm.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Strong customer service belief.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
* Change-oriented.
Skills
Essential
* Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles.
* Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting.
* Ability to delegate and coordinate.
* Ability to work to deadlines.
* Ability to utilise assessment skills and tools effectively.
* Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
* Ability to maintain accurate and up-to-date clinical records.
* Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate.
* Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.
* Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues.
* Effective time & workload management.
* Ability to identify and minimise risk effectively.
* IT skills.
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
Dragon Lane
Whiston
L35 5DR
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