Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-CC7189639
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hollins Park
- Town
- Warrington
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 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
Are you passionate about supporting mothers, birthing people and their babies during the perinatal period?
Join our compassionate and dynamic team, where you’ll play a key role in delivering thoughtful and personalised mental health care.
This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference by providing tailored mental health support for women and birthing people whom experience moderate to severe and complex mental health challenges during the perinatal period.
This is a rewarding role where you’ll be part of a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team working to improve the emotional wellbeing of women and birthing people during the perinatal period and promote healthy, secure attachments between mothers and their babies.
We’re committed to improving awareness and raising standards of care across both universal and specialist services, ensuring mothers and their babies receive the support they need during this important time.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide compassionate, evidence-based care to an identified caseload of women, delivering tailored interventions that support maternal mental health and early parent-infant relationships. You will play a vital role in ensuring that care is safe, inclusive, and responsive to the diverse needs of the women and families we serve.
Our team works at the intersection of physical and mental health, bringing together professionals from a range of backgrounds to support families across the perinatal pathway. You’ll collaborate with maternity services, GPs, health visitors, social care, and voluntary sector partners to ensure care is joined-up, high-quality, and accessible.
As part of your role, you’ll contribute to safeguarding, support early identification and triage of referrals, provide specialist advice, and help plan and coordinate care packages that are integrated across services. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to service development, staff training, student mentoring, and clinical supervision, helping to shape the future of perinatal mental health care within the Trust and beyond.
This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to truly make a difference during one of the most critical times in a person’s life. If you are committed to holistic, person-centred care and want to be part of a service that values compassion, collaboration, and continuous learning, we would love to hear from you.
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 attached job description and person specification outlines further details in relation to main duties and responsibilities of the role.
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 profession
- 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 settin
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
- Understanding of recovery principles in Mental Health.
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
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
- Megan Woodcock
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01925275303
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