Post Graduate Certificate CYP IAPT Trainee Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a qualified and registered nurse, social worker or OT with child mental health experience and a desire to learn and develop new therapeutic skills? Are you committed to providing high quality, evidenced based care in the form of therapy to children and young people If so, we want to hear from you. This is a recruit to train post where you will be trained in delivering Video Interactive Guidance, attachment based therapies working across Building Attachment and Bond Service .

This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The course runs from Jan 2025 and you will need to be available for the start of the course to qualify for this post. The course is provided through the CYP-IAPT training programme, delivered by the Psychological Therapies Training Centre at Prestwich. Their courses are highly regarded as providing high quality training with extensive supervision and support. The training will be a mix of on-line and face to face delivery, dependent on covid restrictions. As a PGCert. trainee you will attend the training centre in Prestwich 2 day per week with 3 days in your service. Half of your time in the service will be course related and half will be as a member of the core team in which you are based. In your service you will be a valued member of the multi-disciplinary team offering a balance of generic assessments and therapy to a caseload of clients. You will have access to the full support of the team and opportunities to cross team work and have experience of working in innovative
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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.

Clinical

To hold a caseload of assessments and treatment interventions based upon the therapeutic modality of their training.

To provide direct therapeutic interventions consistent with IAPT principles, their training modality and progress, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families referred into the service.

Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework.

To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people and families from a wide range of racial, cultural, and religious backgrounds.

To participate directly in the team's duty rota's in line with the grading of the post.

To exercise responsibility within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of clients.

To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care.

To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child young person and carers.

To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within area of work.

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described with the guidelines of Local Safeguarding Children's Board and Mersey Care Trust safeguarding policies.

Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.

To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust's service user participation agenda.