Mental Health Practitioner with Triage and Response | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Winwick

This role will require the successful post holder to work across the Crisis Assessment Service's footprint, involving regular travel between multiple sites to complete duties.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to Emergency Services colleagues.
• Manage service users detained under Section 136.
• Operate identified Places of Safety and the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS).
• Collaborate with Registered Mental Health Practitioners, healthcare support workers, police forces, NWAS, local authorities, acute trust colleagues and mental health services.
• Support service users presenting in crisis, ensuring needs are met and facilitating timely assessment and safety planning.
• Demonstrate flexibility, effective communication, problem‑solving skills and assess risk to support the service user during a crisis period.
• Assist with screening and telephone triage of referrals, prioritising as appropriate and providing information for referrers, service users and carers.
• Formulate, contribute to and participate in the development and implementation of specialist assessments, including risk, with patients requiring crisis care.
• Formulate and deliver plans of care in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Carry out generic and specialist assessments, including risk, for patients requiring crisis care.
• Provide short‑term evidence‑based practices and fixed‑term interventions.
• Support the delivery of education and self‑help materials within a variety of locations.
• Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non‑statutory organisations.
• Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service‑user assessments/referrals and models of care.
• Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promoting service‑user health, safety and well‑being, preserving and respecting each service‑user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.
• Ensure record‑keeping is in accordance with professional and trust standards.
• Ensure safe management of medicines and adherence to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate and promote positive intra‑agency working.
• Participate and assist in setting standards of service‑user care based on sound research findings and evidence‑based practice.
• Participate in clinical and managerial supervision as per trust policy, and monitor standards of service‑user care and documentation.

Qualifications

• Self‑motivated and forward‑thinking.
• Experience of crisis management, assessment and ward work is beneficial.
• Level 2 police vetting is required for working alongside police/BTP.

Benefits

• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
• Participation in regular supervision (clinical and managerial) as per trust policy.