Senior Mental Health Practitioner; Camhs

Knowsley CYPMHS has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and experienced Mental Health Practitioner to come and join our well-established community team, specialising in Child and Young Person Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) in the Knowsley Borough.

We are looking to appoint a 12 month fixed-term Senior Mental Health Practitioner.

As part of the role of a senior mental health practitioner, you would be tasked with the duty (referral management), assessments, case management and therapeutic intervention for children and young people (CYP).

Knowsley CYPMHS has successfully implemented Thrive and works closely with our multi-agency partners throughout the Knowsley borough. This includes working within the THRIVE offer with services such as education institutes, children's social care and third-sector organisations. This is an important aspect of our work as we continue to strive for outstanding support for CYP and their families.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. We would welcome applications from experienced nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and non-core practitioners with mental health experience.

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 problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.

You will be expected to manage your own caseload, you will also provide clinical assessment and interventions to children, young people, their families and wider networks with complex mental health needs; in line with the THRIVE Framework.

You will be expected to provide duty (referral management) support when required.

Your role will include direct and indirect client work as well as consultation and liaison with other professionals around the specialist clinical area of CYPMHS. You will be engaged in all levels of clinical responses such as urgent assessments.

You will be expected to work as a member of the CYPMHS Multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

CYPMHS is an exciting area of work that is always evolving with new research and innovation;
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.

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:

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. 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.

• 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…