Mental health practitioner

☞ Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Liverpool North West

Category: Social Work / Community Services

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Salary: £25,655 - £31,534 a year

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An exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and driven Band 5/6 developmental post to work within the 24/7 mental health urgent care for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

The 24/7 mental health urgent care team is a brand new service which will provide 24/7, 365 days a year access to all aspects of mental health care, advice, support and treatment. This role will involve 4 specific areas of work including our first response telephone line, our section 136 assessment suite our specialised assessment clinic, and Blue Light services.

Our assessment clinic provides the completion of holistic mental health assessments for service users who are experiencing all aspects of mental health difficulties. This encompasses liaising with GP’s, service users, family/carers and the MDT in order to collaboratively complete individualised treatment plans for our service users.

Shortlisting is planned for 30th Aug 21

Interviews are planned for 7th Sept 21

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist inpatient and community mental health, learning disabilities, addiction and acquired brain injury services for the people of Liverpool, Sefton and Kirkby, Merseyside. We also provide community physical health services in
Liverpool, Sefton, secure mental health services for the North West of England, the West Midlands and Wales and specialist learning disability services across Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Merseyside.

Our ambition is to deliver perfect care to become the world’s leading organisation in holistic health and well being. Mersey Care’s vision and values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respect, Enthusiasm and Support (CARES) drive our organisation and the way we work together to deliver services. Applicants will be expected to demonstrate, during recruitment and any subsequent employment with the Trust, that their behaviour supports our values.

Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.
  • Role model the values of the Trust – Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness and Enthusiasm – in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders
  • Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
  • Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: ’The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.’
  • Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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