Mental Health Practitioner

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?

Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and Knowsley.

We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.

We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people's services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.

We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Practitioner will work as a member of 0-19+ service to build capacity and strengthen the existing provision in relation to emotional health and well being, creating sustainability within the service and the wider partnerships.

This will be an integrated role with the locality teams and will require the post holder to provide some consultative advice to teams and participate in delivery of training and development for other professionals.

The post holder will support the development of the 0-19+ service, working in partnership with the Local Authority, partner agencies and Primary Care Teams.

The post requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be adaptable, reliable, compassionate and approachable. You will need to have strong interpersonal and leadership skills, be flexible solution focused and support service development.

As a key stakeholder in the protection of children, you will be required to work collaboratively with other agencies to meet their needs. You will have a good knowledge of the components of Clinical Governance, Risk Management, Audits and relevant Professional Codes.

You can also visit our dedicated children and young people's website to find out more about our services.

About us

About the Trust

Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:

0-19 / 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services
Community Nursing
Sexual Health Wirral
Community Cardiology
Walk-in centres
Speech and Language Therapy
Teletriage
Community Dental
Social Care
End of Life Care

As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.

You can read more about the Trust via thecareers section on our website.

Date posted

24 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

844-6257585-B

Job locations

Crewe Eagle Bridge HWBC

Dunwoody Way

Crewe

CW1 3AW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for more information on this exciting job role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for more information on this exciting job role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Professional Training

Essential

RN (Adult or Child//RSCN) (Minimum requirement of two years post basic training )
Post Graduate in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - School Nursing/ Health Vistingivalent
Post graduate in therapeutic intervention / or equivalent experience.
Motivational Interviewing trained

Desirable

Solihull Approach Trained
Promotional Interviewing trained
Mentorship Level 7
Leadership Level 7

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
In depth Knowledge of safeguarding issues / legislation and awareness of how these will apply to this role
In depth Knowledge of Community mental Health services and national policy context
Evidence of managing people and complex situations
Experience of leading the assessment, planning and evaluation of care
Experience of integrated working
Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
Knowledge of wider policy and service issues relating to perinatal mental health

Desirable

Experience in perinatal mental health

Skills and Attributes

Essential

Literate in IT/Computer skills
Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
Effective interpersonal skills within the Multi-disciplinary team
Ability to support and motivate staff
Evidence of training delivery
Experience of delivering group work
Experience of audit and data collection and collation
Ability to hold professionals and peers to account
Ability to empathise with service users, carers and colleagues ensuring that effective communication is achieved
Negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations, including the resolution of complaints, concerns
Ability to support students in placements

Personal Qualities

Essential

Access to a car for work purposes
Commitment
Vision

Person Specification

Qualifications and Professional Training

Essential

RN (Adult or Child//RSCN) (Minimum requirement of two years post basic training )
Post Graduate in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - School Nursing/ Health Vistingivalent
Post graduate in therapeutic intervention / or equivalent experience.
Motivational Interviewing trained

Desirable

Solihull Approach Trained
Promotional Interviewing trained
Mentorship Level 7
Leadership Level 7

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
In depth Knowledge of safeguarding issues / legislation and awareness of how these will apply to this role
In depth Knowledge of Community mental Health services and national policy context
Evidence of managing people and complex situations
Experience of leading the assessment, planning and evaluation of care
Experience of integrated working
Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
Knowledge of wider policy and service issues relating to perinatal mental health

Desirable

Experience in perinatal mental health

Skills and Attributes

Essential

Literate in IT/Computer skills
Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
Effective interpersonal skills within the Multi-disciplinary team
Ability to support and motivate staff
Evidence of training delivery
Experience of delivering group work
Experience of audit and data collection and collation
Ability to hold professionals and peers to account
Ability to empathise with service users, carers and colleagues ensuring that effective communication is achieved
Negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations, including the resolution of complaints, concerns
Ability to support students in placements

Personal Qualities

Essential

Access to a car for work purposes
Commitment
Vision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.