Job summary
- Main area
- CYPMHS
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC8267472
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Alders
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 6
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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 ethnically diverse, 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. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Wellbeing Practitioner to join the established Mental Health Support Team in Warrington, delivering mental health support to children and young people across education settings in Warrington.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
This post requires a professional registration:
Education Mental Health Practitioner Post Graduate (PGCert) or Post Graduate Diploma (PGDip)
OR
Children & Young People's Wellbeing Practitioner PGCert or PGDip
AND
Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) or Commitment to complete the qualification once in post
AND
Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS
Main duties of the job
Provide assessment and low intensity interventions, such as psycho-educational interventions, one-to-one psychological therapies and parenting interventions.
Support professionals, such as school staff and third sector employees, in making appropriate referrals and in carrying out the mental health aspects of their own roles.
Make appropriate referrals to other service providers in the statutory and voluntary sectors and redirect patients to other sources of appropriate support within the local community as required.
Provide a service that is flexible as far as possible in terms of clinic hours, mode of delivery and location of contact.
Liaise as appropriate with secondary care mental health services, social care, schools, and other partner agencies.
Adhere to Trust safeguarding policies and local safeguarding procedures. Where necessary, attend social care meetings such as Team Around the Family, Child in Need, or Child Protection meetings.
Conduct risk assessments, prepare risk management plans and initiate appropriate action where indicated (including referrals to relevant secondary care or crisis services).
Undertake appropriate clinical supervision on a regular basis in accordance with the
relevant professional guidelines and policies.
Provide supervision to practitioners in the service line.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
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 and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
CLINICAL
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience.
To undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.
Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework
To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s services.
To participate directly in the teams duty rotas.
To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multi-agency meetings.
To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers
To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of specialist knowledge
To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families.
To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.
To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work.
To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk
within the multi-agency network.
Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust safeguarding policies
Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.
To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Education Mental Health Practitioner Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) or Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) for roles based in MHSTs OR
- Children & Young People’s Wellbeing Practitioner PGCert or PGDip for roles based in CYPMHS teams AND
- Senior Wellbeing Practitioner Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip), or commitment to complete the qualification once in post
- Registration with either the BABCP or the BPS
Desirable criteria
- A qualification in professional supervision
- Training in a High Intensity Modality
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working with people with common mental health problems
- Ability to demonstrate a range of post-qualifying experiences in offering and delivering the range of evidence-based low intensity interventions
- Consolidated and reflective supervised post-qualifying experience in a community setting
- Experience of working with clients in a primary care setting
- Experience of ‘partnership working’
- Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
- Experience of working with suicidal clients and of risk management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of supervising others
- Experience of working with children and young people who are subject to local authority support at Early Help, Child in Need, or Child Protection levels
- Experience of screening, assessing, and working with a wide spectrum of mental health issues and working with people with moderate common mental health problems
- Experience of audit and research
- Experience of and ability to provide mentor/supervisor role
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of different models of mental health and wellbeing
- Understanding of models of assessment, screening, referral, record-keeping and evidence-based brief psychological intervention
- Knowledge of outcome measures and their use for clinical and audit purposes
- Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and practice
- Knowledge of safeguarding legislation and practice • A good understanding of the Thrive model of CYP mental health and wellbeing support
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of serious mental health presentations (psychosis, bi-polar)
Skills
Essential criteria
- The capacity to adapt core psychological approaches to the primary care culture, incorporating a range of skills to meet a broad spectrum of presenting issues
- Ability to conduct clinical risk assessment and collaboratively create risk management plans with CYP, their families, and professionals supporting them
- Ability to be self-reflective, whilst working with service users, in own personal and professional development, and in supervision
- Able to develop productive therapeutic relationships with clients
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical supervision and personal development positively and effectively
- Ability to work under pressure
- Able to communicate clearly and persuasively, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to liaise and network with a wide range of organisations and members of the public
- Comprehensive IT skills, including word processing and database packages
- Ability to use outcome measures for both clinical and audit purposes
- Ability to manage own caseload and time
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of further training in psychological interventions/therapy
- Ability to carry out a range of evaluation and monitoring techniques
- Able to work through interpreters
- Fluent in languages other than English
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
- Dave Mulholland
- Job title
- Assistant Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 664 100
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