Bank - Mental Health Inpatient Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Prescott; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare trust in the UK is seeking experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses for their Temporary Staffing Team. This flexible role allows you to choose your working hours and locations across various inpatient wards. Responsibilities include providing high-quality care, engaging in service delivery improvement, and leading care planning. Ideal candidates should have a registered qualification in mental health nursing and be able to respond to dynamic healthcare environments.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Comprehensive training support

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification is essential.
• Experience in acute mental health care preferred.
• Ability to provide leadership and role modeling to other staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, stigma-free care to service users.
• Engage in continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Lead and coordinate care planning and evaluations.

Skills

High quality service delivery

Continuous improvement

Multidisciplinary communication

Medication administration

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting experienced Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our Temporary Staffing Team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking to increase our pool of bank staff working within the inpatient wards across the organisation. This includes:

• Warrington and Halton
• Liverpool
• Southport
• St Helens and Knowsley

Acute mental health care is a fast paced, dynamic environment. This leads to the teams on our wards working closely together and developing strong, supportive bonds. The experience you gain whilst working on our wards is invaluable.

It’s an exciting time at Mersey Care as we continue to develop the highest quality services, supported by cutting edge innovation and research.

This is a Bank post

As a bank worker, you will have a zero hours contract and will have the flexibility to choose when and where you would like to work.

Our in-patient services predominately care for adults over the age of 18, in acute, PICU and LLAMS settings.

Responsibilities

As a registered mental health nurse on our bank you will be expected to:

• Provide service users with a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
• Be engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
• Provide visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and act as a role model.
• Work by our Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support.
• Provide high quality, evidence based care for service users and their carers within inpatient areas.
• Function as a registered mental health nurse assisting in assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
• Coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the Care Programme Approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
• Ensure that the service users’ care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual.
• Liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
• Develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team and ensuring all significant people are aware of and act on the plan.
• Direct unqualified staff to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
• Participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence and research findings.
• Participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users you are responsible for, with guidance from a supervisor.
• Communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure information relevant to the service user’s care is shared.
• Use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to impart sensitive information and check understanding where there are barriers to effective communication.
• Utilise skills to give and receive information regarding a service user’s care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings (external to the Trust as needed).
• Have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• Support service users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is used to admit the service user to hospital and ensure rights are effectively communicated and outcomes documented.
• Provide and coordinate a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
• Take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users in accordance with Trust policies and Nursing & Midwifery Council regulations.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

About Mersey Care

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.

Expiry date: This advert closes on Monday 13 Oct 2025