Job Description:

Job information Perinatal Systemic Family Practitioner from the Company Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, this latest Perinatal Systemic Family Practitioner job vacancy is located in the city Warrington WA located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Perinatal field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

The Specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health Team are seeking a Systemic Practitioner (18.75 hours per week 0.5 WTE) to join our friendly and compassionate Mid-Mersey Specialist Perinatal Team, working within Warrington, Halton, St Helens and Knowsley. This is part of our wider Cheshire and Merseyside Specialist Perinatal Service. This is a temporary post to cover maternity leave until the end of November 2025. Their role will be to provide specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention within a multi-disciplinary team to women experiencing mental health difficulties whilst pregnant and up to 2 years post-delivery, and the network around them. This will also include women who have experienced perinatal trauma and loss. Their role will be to provide specialist systemic assessment, formulation and intervention within a multi-disciplinary team to women experiencing mental health difficulties whilst pregnant and up to 2 years post-delivery, and the network around them. This will also include women who have experienced perinatal trauma and loss. They will provide systemic advice, guidance, joint work, consultation and training within the multi-disciplinary team under supervision from a qualified Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and registered supervisor. They will be a specialist resource and contribute the teams systemic knowledge and skills via case reviews, joint work and clinical meetings. 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. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical 1. To undertake thorough specialist systemic assessments of women referred to the team. This includes the gathering of appropriate information from the family, utilising a range of systemic methodologies (e.g., interactional patterns, levels of context) and from other professionals and agencies. 2. To provide a specialist level of systemic assessment, formulation and intervention with women in the perinatal period and their families. This includes delivery of a range of systemic skills and techniques to individuals, couples, and families, in the context of professional and wider social systems. 3. To undertake risk assessment and the management of risk following an act or intent of deliberate self-harm. 4. To hold a complex caseload and to exercise autonomy within supervisory and managerial structures for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients. 5. Following assessment, in conjunction with the patient and family when appropriate to derive a clinical formulation and treatment plan and communicate this in writing to the referrer and other professions within limits of confidentiality. 6. To directly implement a variety of systemic skills as appropriate to client needs and to the level of systemic qualification held including couples, co-parenting and family interventions. 7. To provide advice, guidance, and consultation to other team members as appropriate in groups or on an individual basis, drawing upon systemic theory, knowledge and evidence base as in line with the level of systemic qualification held and core professional qualification. 8. To provide systemic intervention under the supervision of a clinical Family and Systemic Psychotherapist supervisor and to work in ways which are sensitive to the needs of families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds. 9. To identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues within procedures set down by trust and local child protection committee. 10. To observe professional confidentiality in all matters relating to your work. 11. Establish and maintain good relationships and clear communication with other local agencies [e.g., Social Services, Midwives, Health Visitors and GP]. 12. To facilitate collaboration and joint working with other relevant professionals. Education/Training 13. To participate in service and team reviews, in line with Trust, Directorate Needs 14. To participate in appropriate training courses, talks and seminars to other disciplines and organisations, statutory and non-statutory. 15. To participate in regular systemic clinical supervision from a qualified Family Therapist and other relevant supervision from senior professional colleagues including the team manager, team clinical lead and team clinical psychologist. 16. To provide consultation, advice and training as appropriate to professionals outside of the team as in line with the level of systemic qualification held and core professional qualification. Administration 17. To maintain up-to-date comprehensive clinical notes and prepare formal documents such as letters, reports and summaries. 18. To record and submit statistical information as required by the service. Statistical information will be to both local for team information or to the Trust data collection system. 19. To ensure administrative tasks are completed within the time scales set down in service protocols. 20. To attend and participate in team referral meetings, business meetings, supervision and support meetings. 21. To contribute to the formulation and evaluation of policies and the development of ideas for changing policies as appropriate. Clinical Governance 22. To participate in team evaluations, team reviews and risk assessments. 23. To participate in audit meetings as set down by team, to contribute to team projects such as audit, evidence-based practice, research. 24. To assist in ensuring that all practice is both clinically safe and can show evidence of evidence-based practice. 25. To assist in any research projects running or set up within local team, directorate or Trust. 26. To participate in team initiatives to ensure quality of service e.g., client satisfaction questionnaires.

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Closed Date : 2024-12-18