Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Worker

We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000. The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply; please see attached document.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of our developing Children and Young People’s (CYP) Emergency and Urgent care provision. As part of the NHS 5 Year Forward View, CWP has undertaken the development of the crisis response services for CYP. We are continuing to recruit a number of enthusiastic and motivated clinicians to CWP’s newly formed CYP Urgent Support Team. These dynamic team members will form part of our skilled, multidisciplinary team. Clinicians will be offered the opportunity to develop skills and experience in this area through the induction process, internal training, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and supervision.

The service will operate over 24 hours, 7 days per week to provide crisis mental health assessment and interventions for CYP in a range of settings. Currently, the service operates between 8am-10:30pm, but will move to a 24-hour service in the future. Team members work 11.5-hour shifts. The service is currently located in Winsford, but covers the entire CWP footprint.

Main duties of the job

Successful applicants will offer crisis intervention and assessment to children, young people, families, and the children's workforce in a range of settings, supported by senior colleagues. This role could be used to offer candidates the knowledge, experience, and confidence to apply for future Mental Health Practitioner posts within the Urgent and Emergency Care provision.

Working for our organisation

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries. Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role. We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please download a copy of the job description for full details. Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it. Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’: Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion, and Commitment. The supporting information section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

Person specification

• Qualifications

• Qualified in a core profession (Social Work, Nurse, Allied Health Professional)
• Professional registration with recognised National Body (HCPC, NMC, Social Work England)
• Psychology or other mental health-related undergraduate degree.
• Nationally recognised post-qualification, continuous professional development (CPD) related to the core profession (Social Work, Nurse, Allied Health Professional).

• Knowledge and Expertise

• Knowledge of child psychology and development
• Demonstrates an understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present
• Demonstrate an understanding of parenting and behaviour management interventions
• Demonstrates a knowledge of the impact of multisystemic issues such as home, school, and community.
• Knowledge of child protection issues, safeguarding, and other relevant legislation
• Demonstrates an understanding for the need to use evidence-based psychological and systemic therapies and how it relates to this post

• Experience

• Experience of safeguarding vulnerable people
• Experience of multi-agency working
• Experience of working in a mental health and/or CYP setting
• Evidence of working in the local community
• Experience of routine outcome monitoring

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.

We are Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP). We provide health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries. We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton, and Liverpool. We also provide specialist services for the North West as a whole. At CWP, we believe in giving our staff the time to care, the space to think, and the opportunity to grow.