Senior Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner

Job Description

Alder Hey Childrens Hospital cares for over 330,000 children, young people and their families every year.As one of Europes biggest and busiest childrens hospitals, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In 2015 we opened a state-of-the-art hospital alongside a brand new research, innovation and education centre. Alder Hey in the Park and the Institute in the Park bring together excellent care, technology and design to provide the best possible healing environmentfor children and their families.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complexmental health needs at our Alder Park Building in North Liverpool.We know that a childrens hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learnand grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into childrens medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the worlds leaders in childrens healthcare and research. We contribute to public health,lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of childrens specialists.For over 100 years, Alder Hey has been providing innovative high quality care for children and young people. We continue to drive innovation in paediatric healthcare within our Innovation Hub. The Innovation Hub is a dedicated space where clinicians andindustries can come together to create new products and technologies.To be successful in applying, the candidate will need to:

• To communicate to the client and family, knowledge of therapeutic processes, confidentiality and available options involved in their assessment and care plan, to enable them to engage appropriately from a position of informed consent. This will sometimesinclude communication about highly sensitive material and outcomes.
• Utilising analytical skills, specialist knowledge and experience provide a comprehensive assessment and formulation of the presenting problem taking into account the childs educational attainment, chronological/ developmental stage, inner world/ emotionalwellbeing, the mental health of the childs parents, the family dynamics and environment, and the broader social context including school.
• Develop a planned programme of intervention utilising behavioural, cognitive, psychodynamic and systemic perspectives as indicated by the formulation, the needs of the client and the evidence base.
• Provide individual, couple, family and group interventions as appropriate as part of a clients integrated, therapeutic programme.
• Undertake with supervision/consultation, case management of cases of some severity, risk and complexity, co-ordinating multi-disciplinary inputs and working in partnership with other agencies where appropriate.
• Provide risk assessment of children and young people admitted to the acute paediatric ward, following acts of self-harm as first on call undertaking responsibility for discharge or seeking further consultation/assessment from psychiatrist on-call as appropriate.
• Provide 9 - 5 emergency cover under supervision/consultation as agreed, for referrals of children at risk of self-harming.
• Identify potential signs of mental health disorder/other specialist need and refer to the appropriate professional for assessment.

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