Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Responsibilities

• Provide interventions, advice, consultation and supervision to colleagues and external partner agencies in line with the THRIVE framework and clinical competency.
• 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.
• Conduct assessments, treatment and consultation work based on a conceptual framework and employing research‑based evidence.
• Perform direct therapeutic interventions, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families.
• Undertake risk assessments and care plans in line with the THRIVE framework.
• Screen referrals to children and young people’s services.
• Participate directly in the team’s duty rotas.
• Exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients.
• Deliver care coordination and maintain effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes.
• Organise and facilitate multi‑agency meetings.
• Produce clinical formulations and intervention plans founded on evidence‑based practice in cooperation with the child, young person and carers.
• Hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge.
• Work jointly and collaboratively with other team members to enhance the provision of services to young people and their families.
• Provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleagues.
• Promote effective multi‑agency work and contribute theoretical knowledge to risk management within the multi‑agency network.
• Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues in line with safeguarding policies.
• Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, ensuring information is accurate and complies with data protection and trust standards.
• Engage with routine outcome measures and input data into clinical records.
• Communicate professional opinions verbally and in writing to other relevant professionals.
• Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative from children and young people’s mental health services.
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to children, young people and families and to other professionals.
• Organise and facilitate multi‑agency meetings and reviews, elicit highly sensitive information using engagement and communication skills appropriate to the young person’s 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.
• Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and commit to continued development.
• Provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills.
• Assist in the recruitment process by shortlisting, interviewing and inducting staff.
• Support workload of colleagues via co‑working practices.
• Contribute to service evidence‑based practice by engaging in audits and evaluations.
• Contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes.
• Participate in research, evaluation, and audit responding to clinical interest and monitoring standards, quality and consumer reaction in accordance with NICE guidance.
• Contribute to development of best practice by engaging in supervision, appraisal and maintaining awareness of developments in the field.
• Maintain professional registration.