Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Young Persons Mental Health Services - Community Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC6242277
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Alders
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/05/2024
Employer heading
Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner
Band 5
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Job overview
Spread your wings at Mersey Care and apply for a role within our Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Services. We are looking for a passionate enthusiastic CWP to work in our Warrington Children and Young People's Mental Health Service as part of a growing multi disciplinary team. You will offer low intensity intervention for a variety of mental health concerns with supervision and support from CBT therapists and other qualified staff.
Main duties of the job
As a Children & Young People Wellbeing Practitioner (CYPWP), the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to provide assessment and low intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) interventions to children and young people and their families / carers referred into the service.
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.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
Value social inclusion
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To hold a caseload of assessments, treatment upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
To provide high volume low intensity psychological 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 and families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients
To deliver co-ordinated care, 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.
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 work.
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.
Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and 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
Adhere to agreed activity expectations relating to the overall number of clients contacts offered, throughput and outcomes to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible, efficient and effective.
To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust’s service user participation agenda.
Please refer to attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of mental health assessments and therapeutic interventions with children and young people with mental health problems and their families
- Evidence of competent delivery of low intensity CBT for common mental health disorders in children and young people
- Skilled in the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, clinical sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS
- Experience of working with a variety of patient groups including a degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Able to provide evidence of competently managing own caseload
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Experience of delivering teaching, training
- Experience in consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Children and Young People Wellbeing Practitioner (CYPWP) qualification
Desirable criteria
- Educated to degree standard
- Evidence of further study/ qualification in the field of children and young people’s mental health
Knowledge/ Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a thorough understanding of anxiety and depression in children & young people.
- Level of knowledge of the mental health needs of children and adolescents.
- Thorough understanding of theoretical basis of low intensity CBT
- Able to describe rationale and content of range of low intensity interventions.
- Must demonstrate ability to be self-reflective and to organise own supervision appropriately
- Ability to work within a culturally diversive community in a wide variety of contexts including specialist skills for working in settings outside the clinic.
- Ability to take clinical responsibility for patient care and treatment, both as a care co-ordinator and within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
- Interpersonal skills to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, in order to convey clinically sensitive information to family members of all ages and to a wide range of lay and professional persons, within and outside of the NHS.
- Able to demonstrate understanding of ways to assess risk to self and others within the context of mental health assessment.
- Broad knowledge of legal frameworks in relation to children and young people
- Ability to work within a team and foster good working relationships
- Ability to use clinical and case management supervision positively and effectively
- Ability to organise and co-ordinate areas of work.
- Ability to identify and provide appropriate means of support to carers exposed to distressing situations and challenging behaviours.
- Ability to identify and employ as appropriate clinical governance mechanisms for the support and maintenance of clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in Information technology and using word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation software.
- Level of knowledge and/or training in other psychological therapies
- Knowledge and skills in providing consultation to other professionals and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of research design and methodology consistent with practice to at least degree level or equivalent.
- Ability to demonstrate skills in multi-disciplinary work.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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
- Zoe Manley
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925 575904
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