This position is in Community C YP Crisis , which is an integrated multidisciplinary service providing a child and family mental health service. The service provides short-term community based interventions mid to long-term multidisciplinary interventions and long term specialist treatments and consultation to partnership agencies.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist generic and discipline specific assessments of referred clients, using interview, and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long term treatment approaches.

To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.

To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment service based within the community.

To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment within a clinic based setting.

To carry a caseload of families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy.

To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients.

To liaise with other health, social care and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service.

To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients' homes to best meet the clients needs and in line with service practice

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the Northwest, serving more than 11 million people.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide specialist generic and discipline specific assessments of referred clients, using interview, and other assessment methods as appropriate.

To formulate and devise treatment plans for referred clients and to provide interventions using a range of generic and discipline specific models appropriate to the service. This includes both short and long term treatment approaches.

To provide specialist mental health advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals/ agencies to assist in the formulation, diagnosis and treatment of clients.

To work autonomously providing open access assessment and treatment service based within the community.

To contribute to and undertake multidisciplinary assessments and treatment within a clinic based setting.

To carry a caseload of families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy.

To provide reports and communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner concerning the assessment, formulation, treatment plans and needs of clients.

To liaise with other health, social care and education staff, from a range of agencies, in the care provided to clients from each service.

To carry out clinical work in health and education settings, and clients homes to best meet the clients needs and in line with service practice

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• oPost-graduate/ doctoral level qualification in family and systemic psychotherapy recognised by DOH and AFT.

Experience

Essential

• oGeneric and discipline specific mental health assessments and treatments of children and families across a range of ages.
• oFormulating and devising treatment plans for a range of presentations. Including both short and long-term treatment approaches.
• oWorking autonomously with families providing an assessment and treatment service.
• oContributing to multidisciplinary team meetings and co-working assessments and treatment within clinic-based settings.
• oCase managing families requiring longer term family and systemic psychotherapy.

Values

Essential

• oContinuous Improvement oAccountability oRespectfulness oEnthusiasm oSupport oHigh professional standards
• oResponsive to service users oEngaging leadership style oStrong customer service belief oTransparency and honesty oDiscreet oChange oriented

Skills

Essential

• oHigh-level knowledge of the theory and practice of family and systemic psychotherapy.
• oKnowledge and Skills of a range of models in the assessment and treatment of child mental health including specific family and systemic theories and evidence base.
• oKnowledge and skills in effective communication, orally and in writing, complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• oknowledge of the relevant clinical research literature and ability to apply it to field of child mental health
• oAbility to form good working relationships and work flexibly with others in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency settings
• oAbility to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice.
• oKnowledge of legislation in relation to the client group and mental health, education and the children Act and Child protection

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

KRRC

Old Colliery Road

Prescot

L35 3SX

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