Job summaryAn opportunity has arisen for a Senor Mental Health Nurse to join our multi disciplinary team.
The Crisis Response Team provide interventions to young people at the point of mental health crisis.
The team provide 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 centred 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 colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
Main duties of the jobThe post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
- Promote safe practices
- Value the aims of service users
- Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
- Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
- Value social inclusion
The team promotes the Thrive model of service delivery and so is continually developing innovative and creative practice - so the successful candidate will share our enthusiasm and hard working approach.
About usMersey 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. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job responsibilities- To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience.
- To undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
- 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.
- Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
- To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
- To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young Peoples services.
- To participate directly in the teams duty rotas.
- To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
- To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multi-agency meetings.
- To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers
- To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of specialist knowledge
- 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.
- To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
- To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work.
- To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network
- Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
- Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies
- Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
- To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
- To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.
COMMUNICATIONTo communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi and uni disciplinary care.
To effectively communicate professional opinions, verbally and in writing to other relevant professionals.
Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young peoples mental health services.
Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to children, young people and families and to other professionals with in young peoples services.
Communicate effectively with children, young people and their carers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations
Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews
Elicit highly sensitive information using engagement/ communication skills which are appropriate to the young persons stage of development
Work, as part of an integrated multi professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals
Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.
TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION.Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and committed to continued development.
To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills in line the transformation of children and young peoples mental health services
To provide specific training and /or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes
To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different background so that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to positive change. T
To assess trainees competencies and write placement reports for trainees in line with Trust, professional body regulations
Work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE. This will include joint working; consultation; and training aiming to develop joint working across agencies.
Maintaining registration / accreditation requirements in accordance with the appropriate professional body in line with their professional qualification.
Be accountable for own clinical practice and professional behaviour
MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENTIdentify priorities within and initiatives within the service and advice managers on the level of resources for service development.
Contribute to the services evidence based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate
To contribute to recruitment processes by assisting with shortlisting, interviewing and the induction of recruited staff.
To support the workload of colleagues within the service through co-working practices.
Contribute to service developments.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATIONTo maintain an up to date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to mental health knowledge and other interventions.
To contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes of clinical work within the service.
Participate in research, evaluation and audit in response to the clinical and professional interest of the post, and to monitor standards, quality and consumer reaction to the provision of services in accordance with NICE guidance
Participate in appropriate audit. Quality assurance programmes and research as directed.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTTo receive and engage in regular clinical supervision in accordance with Trust Clinical Governance Standards and the Code of Practice and ethical guidelines of professional body
To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD training in consultation with the post holders service manager to meet professional body requirements for CPD and registration.
To contribute to the development of best practice in the service by taking part in regular supervision and appraisal and maintaining awareness of current developments in the field.
To maintain professional body registration.
Person SpecificationQualificationsEssential- Must hold one of the following: Education Mental Health Practitioner Graduate (EMHP) or Post Graduate Qualification
- Children and Young Persons Wellbeing Practitioner (CYWP) Graduate or Post Graduate Qualification
- Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) Graduate or Post Graduate Qualification
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapies Post Graduate Certificate/Diploma and where applicable hold a professional registration with the relevant accrediting body or be able to evidence ability to undertake this within 12 months of commencing in post. Registration must be maintained throughout employment
- OR Core Professional Qualification in one of the following areas: - Nursing - Social Work - Occupational Therapy
Desirable- Senior EMHP Qualification
- Senior CYWP Qualification
- PWP Supervision Qualification
ExperienceEssential- Experience of managing a case- load of children and young people with a range of moderate mentalhealth needs.
- Working within a children community mental health setting
- Experience of delivering evidence-based psychological therapy e.g. CBT
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups that reflect the full range of clinical severity including a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experienced in and the ability to undertake case management and the supervision of students as required
Desirable- Experience of delivering teaching, training
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
- Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Experience of providing clinical supervision
KnowledgeEssential- Knowledge and skills in the complete range of approaches within the field as required to meet the needs of different patients and settings
- Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents
- Have experience in providing risk assessments
- Knowledge of legislation and strategic frameworks and their implications for both clinical practice and professional management in relation to the full range of client groups
Desirable- Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialist therapies in specific difficult to treat groups
- A level knowledge of theory and practice of specialist therapy / interventions
- Level of knowledge and/or training and other psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least Degree level or equivalent
SkillsEssential- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
- Ability to work within a culturally diverse community in a wide variety of contexts including highly specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic
- Ability to take full clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Interpersonal skills of a high level to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS
- Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead a multi-agency care plan / risk management plan
- Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers and staff exposed to distressing situations and severely challenging behaviours
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice
- Demonstrate a commitment to respecting and displaying the Trust Values at all times
- A commitment to the continuous improvement of services using feedback from individual clients, families, user surveys and clinical research
- Emotional stamina, and resilience to respond constructively in highly stressful situations
- Ability to organise and co-ordinate areas of work that are complex and demanding
Desirable- Information technology and management skills using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software
- Ability to demonstrate leadership and management skills to multi-disciplinary work
Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK RegistrationApplicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. 
