MH Practitioner with MH Triage & Response (inc Decision Unit)

MH Practitioner with MH Triage & Response (inc Decision Unit)

Band 6

Main area Senior Nurse Practitioner Mental Health Triage And Response Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Variety of shifts between 7am-midnight for Triage car and 24 hour service for Place of Safety & Psychiatric clinical decisions unit) Job ref 350-MHC7100025

Site Liverpool/ Warrington and Southport Town Warrington/ Liverpool/ Southport Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 07/04/2025 23:59 Interview date 14/04/2025

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

Job overview

The Mental Health Triage and Response team is a dynamic new service which incorporates the Multiple Award winning street triage car, Places of Safety and the new Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit which fall within the Mersey Care Footprint.

It plays an important role in Mersey Care's response to the national roll out of Right Care Right Person across the region.

The clinical decision unit is part of the wider Mental Health Triage and Response service, alongside our dedicated health based places of safety and the Street Triage cars.

Level 2 Police vetting is required for working alongside Police/BTP

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Practitioner within the Mental Health Triage and Response Team will include providing a response to Street Triage Car Service, the management of Section 136 and the operating of the identified Places of Safety and Clinical Decision Unit.

You will work collaboratively alongside other Registered Mental Health Practitioners, healthcare support workers and also with Police forces, NWAS, Local Authorities, Acute Trust colleagues and Mental Health Services.

The Mental Health Triage and Response Team and Clinical Decision Unit will support service users presenting in crisis and ensure that their needs are met within the identified places of safety and assist with a timely assessment and safety planning.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, problem solve, recognize and assess risk and be able to effectively support the service user in developing personalized safety plans.

Being able to work across our service is an important part of this role.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision as per Trust policy.
• Participate in supervision to monitor standards of service user care and documentation.
• Assist with screening and telephone triage of referrals, prioritizing as appropriate. Provide information for referrers, service users and carers.
• Formulate, contribute and participate in the development and implementation of specialist assessments, including risk, with patients requiring crisis care.
• Carry out generic and specialist assessments including risk with patients requiring crisis care.
• Provide short-term evidence based practices and fixed term interventions.
• Support the delivery of education and self-help materials within a variety of locations.
• Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non-statutory organisations.
• Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being.
• Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
• Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration.
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary Team.
• Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
• Working towards master level education

Knowledge/Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in mental health
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
• Evidence of supervising staff.
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
• Leadership Skills
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Owen Winsland Job title Mental Health Triage Response Team Manager Email address owen.winsland@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 07385491118 Additional information

Due to the specialized nature of this role pre-application discussion with team is recommended.