Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool

The Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment team (CRHT) is currently looking to recruit Band 6 practitioners to join the team, covering Liverpool and Sefton. CRHT operates on a 24 hour, 7 day a week basis, providing intensive home support to service users as an alternative to hospital admission.

The post holder will be expected to work on a rotational shift basis in accordance with service demands, including weekends and night shifts. Responsibilities include:

• Assessment of care needs and development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care within the framework of Effective Care Co-ordination (ECC).
• Operating as part of an integrated Home Treatment Service and delivering care within various environments.
• Assessing and providing treatment to service users with complex needs, considering alternative options to admission where possible.
• Demonstrating an attitude that respects and values service users’ choice, working alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
• Participating in a 24hr roster system, 7 days a week, on a rotational basis.
• Conducting face-to-face assessments, specialist mental health assessments, and supporting the wider police community.
• Delivering training and education to police colleagues and signposting to appropriate partner agencies.

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 the region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.

Key responsibilities also include:

• Formulating, contributing to, and participating in the development and implementation of assessment and care planning systems in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Managing a case load within the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
• Carrying out generic and specialist assessments, including risk, and providing therapeutic interventions/home treatments based on service users’ and/or carers’ needs.
• Completing gatekeeping for all inpatient admission requests across the Merseyside footprint.
• Assessing risks and collaboratively developing safety plans with users/carers.
• Ensuring effective liaison with inpatient units across the Trust to facilitate early discharges or reviews of users placed out of area.
• Acting as the Duty Practitioner/2nd Duty as part of a rotational roster.
• Participating in ECC and undertaking a care-coordinator role as appropriate.
• Assisting in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
• Ensuring record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
• Ensuring the safe management of medicines and adhering to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
• Working in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Participating and promoting positive intra-agency working.
• Acting as a knowledge resource in specialist areas of practice to other team members and agencies as required.
• Where indicated and following relevant training, acting as a non-medical prescriber, working within their sphere of clinical competence.