Senior Health Practitioner CYP LD / ASC

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, As a Senior Health Practitioner, the post holder will manage a defined case-load with a focus on providing focused assessment and evidence-based intervention for children and young people (CYP) and their parents/carers, and evidence based client centred care to children and young
people with varied health needs including learning disabilities, neurodiversity, challenging behaviour and mental health problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
The post holder will be expected to undertake assessments with young people, provide brief interventions within the scope of their core qualification, advice, consultation and supervision to children and young people, and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE and clinical competency., Please see attached JD for all main role expectations and responsibilities.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
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A brand new and exciting opportunity has arisen for 3 x 1.0 WTE Senior Health Practitioners to join Merseycare's childrens services at an innovative point in creating an Intensive Support Team (IST) for Children and Young People with learning disiblities and or neurodiversity concerns. We are looking for individuals who are core/ none core by discipine and hoping to attract a diverse workforce and skill set including a nurse, occupational therapist and speech and language therapist. We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, creative, team players and want to join us in making a difference in children and young people/families lives. It would be preferrable if candidates had experience of working with CYP with complex needs, mental health, learning disibilities and neurodiversity.
This brand new team has a go live date of Spring 2025 there is an expectation for candidates to be in post for this date. The team will be a pan borough service covering Knowsley, St Helens, Halton and Warrington, milage expenses will be paid. All additional training will be provided. Full IT Kit provided, free onsite parking at base site, hybrid working and flexible working agreements will always be considered in line with service delivery., 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.