Community Mental Health Nurse

Transformation Unit; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40.000 - 48.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated Community Mental Health Nurse (Band 6) for Kirkby CMHT. The role involves delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to adults with complex mental health needs in a community setting.

The post requires a Registered Mental Health Nurse with post-registration experience, leadership skills and a commitment to recovery and collaborative care with multidisciplinary teams. Flexible working options may be considered.

Qualifikationen

• Evidence of postregistration CPD is required.
• Experience in mental health nursing with leadership and management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries.

Aufgaben

• Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload (CMHT Kirkby).
• Act as named professional/care coordinator and coordinate care between services.
• Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems and participate in MDT meetings.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Effective listener

Ausbildung

Post-registration CPD

Master's level education in progress

Jobbeschreibung

Main area Working age Adults Community - Mental Health Services Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (9-5 Monday to Friday) Job ref 350-MHC8391812

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Kirkby CMHT Northwood house Town Liverpool Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 08/12/2026

Community Mental Health Nurse

Band 6

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 has arisen for a dedicated Senior Nurse to join our caring and compassionate team in a community mental health setting based in Kirkby.

We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.

Main duties of the job

The Kirkby Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The team is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community.

If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have experience working in this field since qualifying.

The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medication, administration of depots, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community.

As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours.

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

The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will :

Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload

Act as named professional/care coordinator and coordinate care between services

Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities

Provide advice and support for service users and carers

Participate in delivery of group interventions

Supervision of Junior colleaguesin the team

Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload

Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication

Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT

Attend regular supervision and team meetings

Participate in training opportunities

Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change

Be part of a duty rota

Monitor medication and administer depot medication

Person specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of postregistration CPD
• Working towards master level education

Experience

• Minimum 2 years post-registration mental health experience
• Evidence of leadership and management skills
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
• Evidence of supervising staff
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance
• Experience in change management and policy formulation
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. RADAR
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings

Knowledge

• Knowledge of mental health legislation, CPA, safeguarding, equality and human rights, clinical governance and professional codes of conduct
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs’ responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge bas e

Skills

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
• Professional attitude
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• The ability to lead change management
• Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area
• Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
• Risk assessment and management
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
• Leadership and supervision
• Multidisciplinary working

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

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £15 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

The Trust uses TrustID digital identity verification, including facial matching technology, to confirm that identity documents belong to the individual attending interview and commencing employment.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.