Community Mental Health Nurse

Merseycare; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to providing exceptional mental health services in the community. As a Band 6 Registered Nurse, you will be an integral part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, responsible for coordinating care and developing treatment plans for adults facing mental health challenges. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in people's lives while working in a collaborative environment that values diversity and inclusion. With a commitment to 'perfect care', you'll have the opportunity to grow professionally and contribute to innovative health solutions in a thriving community. Embrace this chance to fulfill your potential and spread your wings in a fulfilling career.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Professional development opportunities

Supportive multidisciplinary team

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with experience in mental health required.
• Post-registration experience and leadership skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for service users with mental health issues.
• Develop treatment plans and supervise junior staff.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.

Skills

Mental Health Nursing

Leadership Skills

Assessment and Treatment Planning

Communication Skills

Risk Assessment

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Degree Level Education

Post-registration Study

Tools

Incident Reporting Systems (e.g., DATIX)

Job description

Main area: Community Adult - Mental Health Services

Grade Band: 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 350-MHC6840564

Site: Baird House CMHT

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59

Interview date: 16/01/2025

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 ethnic minorities, 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.

Job overview

Arundel Community Mental Health Team based in Baird House is looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 6 Registered Nurse (Mental Health) with experience of working in this field, to join a large, friendly, forward-thinking multi-disciplinary team who provide assessment, treatment and support for adults experiencing mental health difficulties and completing holistic assessments of their needs and collaborative care planning.

Working alongside the community excellence work and being part of the implementation in the team.

There are well-established multidisciplinary teams and the roles will involve working alongside clinicians from other professions to support people with dementia and mental health conditions and their carers who are living in the community. The post holder will receive regular supervision and support.

Main duties of the job

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

1. Act as the care coordinator/named professional for a caseload of people with mental health problems.
2. Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload.
3. Supervise band 5 staff and support workers.
4. Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings, and training opportunities.
5. Provide support and advice for service users and carers.
6. Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change.
7. Participate in delivery of group interventions.
8. Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload.
9. Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication.
10. Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT.
11. Will be expected to carry complex caseload which will include MOJ-37/41 and CTO.

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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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

Duties will include:

1. 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.
2. Ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
3. Liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. Undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.
5. Ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
6. Direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
7. Participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence-based and research findings.
8. Participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification NMC registered and experience at Degree Level.
• Evidence of post-registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice.
• Working towards master level education.

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post-registration experience in mental health.
• 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. DATIX.
• 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 and 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.
• Leadership Skills.
• Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
• 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 base.

Personal Attributes

• 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.

Other

• Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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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.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.

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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Emma Man

Job title: Team Leader

Email address: [e-mail]

Telephone number: 0151 300 8001

Additional information: Please don't hesitate to make contact ahead of application or interview if successful in shortlisting.

FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.

You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an almost 11,000-strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors, nurses, clinical staff, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists. You'll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.