Charge Nurse

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is offering a six-month secondment to join the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Liverpool. The post supports custody clients with mental health needs, providing assessments and group-based interventions within a multi-disciplinary team.

The role requires experienced mental health nursing with a focus on risk assessment, trauma-informed care, and safeguarding in a secure environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates evidence of continued professional development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Support those in custody with mental health needs alongside Nurses and IMHT.
• Apply assessments and facilitate individual/group interventions based on client needs.
• Manage complex clinical and risk presentations in a secure environment.

Skills

Care planning

Multi-disciplinary working

Leadership

Communication

Assessment

Risk assessment

Education

NMC registered nurse

CPD evidence

Job description

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 ethnically diverse, 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.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a 6 month secondment post at HMP Liverpool, Integrated Mental Health Team

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health and learning disability needs of our client group, in partnership with our Physical Health providers and HMPPS colleagues.

HMP Liverpool is a Category B, male only, local prisons, in the Liverpool area.

The service provides individual and group‑based interventions based on the clinical needs of the population. The service is developing and will adopt the biopsychological model to inform practice and tailor interventions accordingly. These interventions will be individualised, and trauma informed, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management.

Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health and learning disabilities within the wider prison.

The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on‑going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will working alongside fellow Nurses and the wider IMHT to support those in custody with mental health needs.

The post holder will have clinical responsibility via the application of relevant assessments and facilitating individual and group based interventions based on the holistic needs of the client group.

The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi‑disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services.

Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.

Within the IMHT's, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details and requirements of the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Registered on the NMC register
• Demonstrates evidence of continued professional development
• Excellent interpersonal skills

Desirable criteria

• Teaching & assessing / mentorship qualification
• Degree in nursing or health related subject
• Up to date portfolio

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience post preceptorship
• Use of assessment tools/technique
• Effective Care Co‑ordination
• Multi‑disciplinary working

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within forensic services.
• Supervision of others

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Mental Health Act 1983 (updated 2007)
• NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Promote people's equality, diversity & rights
• To ensure actions contribute to quality
• Knowledge of Service Governance
• Committed to clinical supervision

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
• Can demonstrate application of theoretical models into practice
• Proven communication skills (verbal & written)
• Leadership skills: supervising, teaching & assessing; self motivated with the ability to motivate others; effective resource management
• Uses initiative and can make decisions
• Manages difficult situations effectively
• Applies current research and theory into practice
• Works well in a multi disciplinary team
• Able to organise and co ordinate services during the absence of more senior staff
• Commitment to working with people with severe mental health problems
• Ability to complete control and restraint training
• Enhanced DBS Disclosure

Desirable criteria

• Has participated in group teaching
• Presented at functions/conferences

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

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