Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 23 months (None)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-CC770030-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Manor Farm Health Centre
- Town
- Huyton
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health 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
The post holder will work within the parent Infant mental health service (BABS) Team supporting children and families with there mental health and attachment relationships.
The post-holder will also provide interventions ranging from attachment informed therapeutic interventions, video interactive guidance, psychoeducation, parent interventions, training to internal and external partners on relationships and parent infant attachment, along with supporting children and families with mild to moderate anxiety and depression.
The post holder will have a BABCP or a BPS registration.
Main duties of the job
Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the department’s referral protocols, refers unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary
Provide a range of information and support for evidence based high-volume low intensity psychological intervention. .
Educate and involve family members/carers if required attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in Treatment, where appropriate.
Complete all requirements relating to data collection within the service.
Keep coherent records of all clinical activity in line with service protocols.
Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
Operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity.
Prepare and present clinical information for all patients on their caseload to clinical case management supervisors within the service on an agreed and scheduled basis.
Respond to and implement supervision suggestions by supervisors in clinical practice.
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
The post will involve providing specialist therapeutic parent-infant mental health support to vulnerable families in the antenatal/postnatal period via Parent Infant Mental Health Assessments, psychological formulation and various parent-infant interventions.
The main focus of the BABS work is supporting parents and infants to build secure bonds and attachment relationships, and good parent infant mental health in the antenatal/postnatal period.
The service is outcome driven, thus evaluation (carrying out pre and post measures and gathering feedback from parents) is key in evidencing BABS’s impact, outcomes and cost benefits.
It would be an advantage if the post holder has previous experience and/or an interest and passion for working in the specialist field of parent infant mental health; in particular, experience of working on an outreach, community-basis supporting vulnerable families in the community.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma/degree level and registered with an appropriate professional body (i.e. Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or willingness to undertake training.
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism.
- Clinical Supervision qualification
- Educational qualification.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge in perinatal mental health or willingness to undertake training
- Specialist knowledge in attachment and infant mental health or willingness to undertake training.
- An understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/Mental Health Capacity Act requirements
- CPA Process.
- Skills and experience in delivering mental health training and education to nonmental health professiona
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multiagency environment
- Substantial experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health problems
- Working within a community mental health setting
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvemen
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to produce well written reports.
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of professionals from various settings
- Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
- Ability to manage risk.
- Able to plan creatively to maximise effectiveness of care plans.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to manage own time and that of the team’s
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to be mobile across a geographical area.
- Ability to manage change in a positive manner
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health problems.
- Computer literacy including analysis of data or willingness to train in such.
- Excellent clinical assessment skills.
Desirable criteria
- Skills in the delivery of attachment and bonding based interventions to mothers with mental illness.
- Participation in user involvement in services
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
- Carmel Doyle
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01513518801
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