Community Mental Health Transition Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking to recruit six Band 6 Mental Health Transition Practitioners to support transition for young adults 18-25, into Community Mental Health Teams across Liverpool & Sefton and connect the young adult to their chosen pathway and interventions. The successful applicants will engage the young adult, carer and referrer prior to referral, where possible, and support the young adult to make informed decisions around their treatment plan and transition.

The Transition Practitioners will strive to achieve the transition standards identified by NICE and will ensure the Mersey Care principles of transition are promoted.

The Transition Practitioners will become an integral member of the Community Mental Health Team/ MDT, whilst working closely with Children and Young People services and developing a good working relationship with services across the wider system, who are also supporting 18-25 transition throughout primary care and VCFSE's., The Transition Practitioner will work within the CMHT but will display initiative and flexibility to support all potential referrals of young adults, 18-25 years of age. They will support young adults for a limited time period, until the young adult has successfully achieved their transition goals and begun treatment within the team. They will act as their keyworker for this period of time, helping the young adult to navigate a complex mental health system and will support in being a point of contact for the young adult and carer.

The Transition Practitioner will regular analyse the performance against the transition standards to understand where quality improvements can be made and to help shape the role across Community Mental Health Services.

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.

To oversee the implementation of National Institute for Health and Social Care Excellence (NICE) Quality Statements for transition for children and young people, aged 18-25, between CYP to AMHS and AMHS to AMHS services.

Young people who will move from children to adults' services start planning their transition with health and social care practitioners by school year 9 (aged 13 to 14, or immediately if they enter children's services after school year 9.

Young people who will move from children to adults' services have a coordinated transition plan.

Young people who will move from children to adults' services have an annual meeting to review transition planning.

Young people who are moving from children to adults' services have a named worker to coordinate care and support before, during and after transfer.

Young people who are moving from children to adults' services meet a practitioner from each adults' service they will move to before the transfer.

Young people who have moved from children to adults' services but do not attend their initial meetings or appointments are contacted by adults' services and given further opportunities to engage.