Educational Mental Health Practitioner

Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner (Mental Health Support Teams in Schools Knowsley) Band 5

An opportunity has arisen for a hard working and compassionate professional to join the newly established children and young peoples Mental Health Support Team in Knowsley (permanent post).

Shortlisting planned for 19 January.

Interviews planned for 26 January.

Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education setting with mild to moderate mental health problems

Helping children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services

Supporting and facilitating staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing

Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health services

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.

Clinical

To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependent on clinical competence

To undertake assessments and treatment 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 with mild to moderate mental health problems.

Delivering evidence-based intervention for children and young people in education

Help children and young people within these settings who present with more severe problems to rapidly access more specialist services.

Support and facilitate staff in education settings to identify and where appropriate manage issues related to mental health and wellbeing.

Working with and within education environments to afford better access to specialist mental health 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 and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.

To participate directly in the teams duty rotas in line with the grading

To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.

To deliver care, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care

To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.

To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

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Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Childrens Board and Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding

Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.

To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trusts service user participation agenda.

Communication

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the…