CYPMHS - Clinical Lead

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen in the St Helens CYPMHS team (child and adolescent mental health services) for an experienced/skilled and passionate clinical lead to support the mental health of children and young people. As the clinical lead, you will be a member of the management and leadership team supporting the team and responsible for leading multi-agency plans to support CYP. You will work closely with the clinical team manager supporting quality of care.
You will deliver therapeutic intervention to meet the needs of complex CYP and complete appropriate risk and safety plans. As a clinical lead, you will be key in developing and supporting local pathways of care, as well as the evaluation of services and training for the wider system. You will also offer consultation this includes working with CSC, Education and third-sector organisations and is a very important aspect of our work. You will provide caseload supervision, and clinical supervision, complete audits, carry a small complex caseload and desirable be skilled in a therapy.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult ' s barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
The post holder will be expected to provide specialist interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.
As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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 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 are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.