Senior Mental Health Practitioner

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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
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.
This will allow timelier access to services and ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time and will offer the practitioner the environment to work in an autonomous way.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure 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 them in their needs
The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals. This includes Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, Responsible clinician – as well as the management team.
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 provide a safe and effective day to day operation of the service, including the handling of clinical enquiries. The role holder will be required to attend daily referral MDT to support the triage process of referrals into secondary mental health care, so they can be signposted, or referred on to agencies as appropriate as well as face to face appointments
To undertake assessments of individual patient’s difficulties, establishing risk and determining the appropriate course of action, taking into consideration all possible options. The relationship should adopt a ‘partnership approach’, 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, taking into consideration 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 and actively support as appropriate.
To collate and organise contemporaneous information about opportunities and resources in the local area which may be of benefit to patients referred to the service (e.g., voluntary and community organisations, educational and recreational opportunities). Facilitate ‘sign posting’ to other appropriate services and occasionally undertake very short-term interventions for patients with moderate to severe mental health difficulties.
To evaluate outcomes and maintain accurate clinical data.
Have an awareness of your own clinical competencies, knowledge base and experience and ensure that you practice within this and seek support as required.
Utilise clinical curiosity in assessing and developing treatment plans with patients. Obtaining and focussing on goal based outcomes with patients, using a holistic approach to their care and social circumstances.
To understand and process Quality Outcome Framework data.
Ensure systems/ pathways are in place to enable smooth transition between services
Regularly be involved 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 range of services / interventions available to the communities

Please refer the Job description for details