Job summary
- Main area
- Health Visitor / School health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 33.75 hours per week (Monday -Friday)
- Job ref
- 844-6257585
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Crewe Eagle Bridge HWBC
- Town
- Crewe
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Healthy Child Programme – Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 6
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
Do you fancy a career with an award winning integrated health and care NHS Foundation Trust?
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is an innovative and forward-thinking organisation, delivering high quality health and care services to the populations of Wirral, Cheshire East and West, St Helens and Knowsley.
We take great pride in being an open, trusting and compassionate organisation. The Trust is committed to promoting and building a team that enhances inclusion, diversity and equality. We strongly believe that working together with our partners, listening to and engaging with our patients, service users and their families we can make a real difference to the lives of local people within our communities.
We currently deliver outstanding 0-19 and 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services across Wirral, Cheshire East and St Helens and Knowsley, supporting over 250,000 children and young people. Our dedicated, innovative and forward-thinking children and young people’s services have a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of families in our communities.
We work closely with our commissioners and partners to deliver the best possible services for the children, young people and families.
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Practitioner will work as a member of 0-19+ service to build capacity and strengthen the existing provision in relation to emotional health and well being, creating sustainability within the service and the wider partnerships.
This will be an integrated role with the locality teams and will require the post holder to provide some consultative advice to teams and participate in delivery of training and development for other professionals.
The post holder will support the development of the 0-19+ service, working in partnership with the Local Authority, partner agencies and Primary Care Teams.
The post requires good communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to be adaptable, reliable, compassionate and approachable. You will need to have strong interpersonal and leadership skills, be flexible solution focused and support service development.
As a key stakeholder in the protection of children, you will be required to work collaboratively with other agencies to meet their needs. You will have a good knowledge of the components of Clinical Governance, Risk Management, Audits and relevant Professional Codes.
You can also visit our dedicated children and young people’s website to find out more about our services.
Working for our organisation
About the Trust
Our local and community based services support people to live well and independently, including:
- 0-19 / 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Services
- Community Nursing
- Sexual Health Wirral
- Community Cardiology
- Walk-in centres
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Teletriage
- Community Dental
- Social Care
- End of Life Care
As a Trust, we provide extensive continuous professional development opportunities through a diverse range of learning solutions, including virtual and face-to-face events, webinars and action learning sets. We subscribe to numerous memberships and licences to support staff development and continuous learning.
You can read more about the Trust via the careers section on our website.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more information on this exciting job role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential criteria
- RN (Adult or Child//RSCN) (Minimum requirement of two years post basic training )
- Post Graduate in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – School Nursing/ Health Vistingivalent
- Post graduate in therapeutic intervention / or equivalent experience.
- Motivational Interviewing trained
Desirable criteria
- Solihull Approach Trained
- Promotional Interviewing trained
- Mentorship Level 7
- Leadership Level 7
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development
- In depth Knowledge of safeguarding issues / legislation and awareness of how these will apply to this role
- In depth Knowledge of Community mental Health services and national policy context
- Evidence of managing people and complex situations
- Experience of leading the assessment, planning and evaluation of care
- Experience of integrated working
- Ability to use email, internet and word processing software
- Knowledge of wider policy and service issues relating to perinatal mental health
Desirable criteria
- Experience in perinatal mental health
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Literate in IT/Computer skills
- Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
- Effective interpersonal skills within the Multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to support and motivate staff
- Evidence of training delivery
- Experience of delivering group work
- Experience of audit and data collection and collation
- Ability to hold professionals and peers to account
- Ability to empathise with service users, carers and colleagues ensuring that effective communication is achieved
- Negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations, including the resolution of complaints, concerns
- Ability to support students in placements
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Access to a car for work purposes
- Commitment
- Vision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Johns
- Job title
- 0-19 Team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909530198
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