Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team has an exciting opportunity for a mental health practitioner to join the North Mersey team. The Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team operates on a 24/7 basis providing support for service users and families across Liverpool and Sefton area.
CRHT support people through a short term mental health crises by providing intensive treatment and support in their home environment as an alternative to inpatient care. The team can also help facilitate early discharge from hospital to provide home treatment.The team consists of Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social workers, Mental health practitioners, occupational therapists and support workers.
The post holder will be expected to work across weekdays, weekends, and nights in accordance with the service need
To provide high quality, evidence based care within our Mental Health Care Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
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.
To participate as an active member of the multi disciplinary team.
To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high risk needs.
To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi disciplinary team.
To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
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 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.
Main duties and responsibilities
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.
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.
To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members carers and significant others.
To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
To direct unqualified staff to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communication.
To give and receive accurate up to date information regarding service users’ care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the Trust.
To have accurate and up to date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
Where appropriate to job role take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing and Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.
To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.
Provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested.
To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.
To react pro-actively in cases of service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
To supervise nursing, social work, approved mental health professional (AMHP) and other students
To actively participate in team meetings.
To participate in the induction of new staff.
Professional duties and responsibilities
To be responsible for maintaining relevant professional registration and PREP requirements.
To participate in life long learning to maintain and develop practice using continuing professional development (CPD), self directed learning, reflective practice, coaching, mentorship, clinical supervision and performance management in the interests and needs of you and the service.
To provide an effective link between mental health services and primary care, acting in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields.
To develop effective working relationships with other professionals outside of the Trust in order to enhance the delivery of care to service users.
To participate as a supervisor and supervisee in the Divisional performance management / supervision framework. Work towards and help others work towards goals and objectives as agreed in personal development plans.
To take responsibility for maintaining and developing own knowledge and skills within own area of work.
To attend, as appropriate, courses and conferences, and to feedback and share knowledge, gained from attendance.
To be professionally accountable for own actions as a registered practitioner.
To act, at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, ensuring that unqualified staff are adhering to policy and procedure.
To undertake mandatory training as identified by the Trust and Division to ensure that all actions are in line with training.
To keep up to date with developments in professional practice and make recommendations for change to senior staff, as appropriate.
Organisational
To adhere to the Trusts rights based approach taking into account service user choice.
To participate in service development as required.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Feb 2025