Charge Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is offering a 6 month secondment within the Integrated Mental Health Team at HMP Liverpool. The role supports holistic mental health and learning disability needs in partnership with HMPPS and physical health providers.

The post holder will work with nurses and a multi-disciplinary team to deliver individual and group interventions, risk assessments and trauma-informed care within a prison setting.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex clinical and risk presentations.
• Experience in institutional settings (e.g., prisons) or similar high-security environments.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessments and facilitate individual and group-based interventions based on holistic needs.
• Support IMHT colleagues and other nursing staff in delivery of care to in-custody patients.
• Contribute to risk assessment and management planning and deliver trauma-informed care.

Job description

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.

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.

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.

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