Senior Mental Health Practitioner
4 days ago
We have 2 positions to offer in the Knowsley CMHT.
These vacancies offer a position for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports the Biopsychosocial assessments of patients to access mental health support.
This job is only suitable for an NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse. The core working hours of this role are Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm excluding bank holidays.
Main duties of the job The successful applicant will work in the Secondary Mental Health setting, offering specialist Mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions.
This role allows the practitioner to provide specialist advice, support, and assessment to patients, facilitating timelier access to services and ensuring that patients receive the right treatment at the right time.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs, ensuring they can transition between services with the best support in place.
The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support their needs.
The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals, including Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, and the management team.
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 and 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, including 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job responsibilities Provide a safe and effective day-to-day operation of the service, including handling clinical enquiries and attending daily referral MDT to support the triage process of referrals into secondary mental health care. Undertake assessments of individual patients' difficulties, establishing risk and determining the appropriate course of action, engaging service users in the positive management of their health and wellbeing. Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments, monitoring mental health medication, and considering any physical health interactions. Provide and receive information, some of which may be contentious, sensitive, and complex to and from individuals and their families/carers. Collate and organise information about opportunities and resources in the local area beneficial to patients referred to the service. Evaluate outcomes and maintain accurate clinical data. Utilise clinical curiosity in assessing and developing treatment plans with patients, focusing on goal-based outcomes. Ensure systems/pathways are in place for smooth transitions between services. Regularly engage in quality improvement activity/audit/significant event review and clinical meetings. Facilitate joint work with Secondary Care providers, primary care, and Voluntary Care Sector (VCS) to increase the range of services/interventions available to communities. Person Specification Qualifications Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g.
RMN, AHP, Social Worker. Evidence of post-registration study/continuing professional development e.g.
Mentorship in Practice. Working towards master level education. Experience/ Knowledge Evidence of leadership and management skills. Evidence of experience 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 working with a range of people with mental health problems in various healthcare settings. A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights. Skills Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally. 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 CBU management team, generate own workload, and meet strict deadlines. Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation. Demonstrate knowledge of ECC guidelines. Demonstrate knowledge in mentorship, preceptorship, and supervision, providing education and supervision to junior staff. Knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and responsibilities to identify gaps in knowledge. Professional attitude with excellent listening, negotiation, oral, written, interpersonal, and organisational skills. The ability to lead change management and contribute to developing care excellence within the ward/team area. VALUES Accountability Support High professional standards Responsive to service users Engaging leadership style Transparency and honesty Discreet Change oriented Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) will be necessary to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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