Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 May 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2026 |
| Location: | Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8019384/350-CC8019384 |
Summary
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Mental Health professional to join the established St Helens Mental Health Support Team, delivering mental health support to children and young people across education settings in St Helens.
This post is subject to an enhanced with children’s and adult’s barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
This post requires a professional registration:
EMHP Graduate or Post Graduate qualification
CYWP Graduate or Post Graduate qualification
PWP Graduate or Post Graduate qualification
CBT Post Graduate/Diploma Certificate
OR:
Core Professional Qualification in one fo the following areas:-
Nursing - Social Word - Occupational Therapist
The role is to hold a caseload, offer risk management and support, support and supervise educational mental health practitioners, offer consultations, undertake Duty responsibilities for the team, work in collaboration with CAMHS teams within the trust and work closely with allocated schools including considering and accepting referrals via school consolation and offering consultancy/training to schools.
The post holder will be expected to provide interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE framework.
As a Senior Mental Health Practitioner, the post holder will provide high standards of evidence based client centred care to children and young people with mental health [CYPMH] problems within the THRIVE Framework for service delivery.
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.
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.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
CLINICAL
To hold a caseload of both specialist and generic work dependant on clinical competence and experience.
To undertake assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a conceptual framework and employing research based evidence.
To provide direct therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, 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 families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.
To be responsible for the screening of referrals to children and Young People’s services.
To participate directly in the teams duty rotas.
To exercise responsibility and autonomy, 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 including organising multi-agency meetings.
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 specialist knowledge
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.
To provide consultation, advice and guidance to junior colleague. To promote effective multi-agency work.
To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk
within the multi-agency network.
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 Northwest Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Jun 2026