Mental Health Practitioner - First Response Services - HTT

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP); Wirral; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Band 6

Main area Mental Health Practitioner - First Response Services - HTT Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time Job ref 373-SMH2350

Site Springview Psychiatric Unit Town Bebington Road Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 10/04/2025 23:59

Job overview

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000

The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Mental Health Practitioner to be part of our First Response Services based within our Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team, Wirral. The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to work across Urgent Care Mental Health First Response Services, which will include Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams, Liaison Services, Street Triage Services, Liaison and Diversion Services and the Crisis Line.

Main duties of the job

The role of a Practitioner is to work within a multi-disciplinary team, providing a comprehensive assessment of people presenting in crisis. You will undertake detailed assessments of people’s needs and use your clinical skills and knowledge to provide intervention and treatment. The post holder will be expected to work as part of the Urgent Care Mental Health First Response Service.

Working for our organisation

Cheshire and Wirral Partnership (CWP) provides health and care services for a population of over one million people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.

We employ around 4,500 staff across 73 sites and have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Our aim is to help improve the lives of everyone in our communities, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role.

At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence and values.

An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page.

If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised qualification in mental health – RMN, AHP, Social Care (AMHPs)
• Evidence of further professional development involving serious mental illness.
• Willingness to undertake and complete nurse prescribing certificate.
• Non-medical Prescribing certificate.

Knowledge & Expertise

• Knowledge and sensitivity to equal opportunities issues.
• Sound knowledge of current professional staff development and continuous service improvement issues.

Experience

• A good amount of post registration experience or demonstrated competencies through Personal Development Plan.
• Multi-disciplinary team work.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact [e-mail] or telephone [phone].

Giving you time to care, space to think and opportunity to grow

We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care.

With vacancies across a range of professions, wherever you’re at in your career journey, you’ll find something to suit you. So why not join our team today?