Community Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Community Mental Practitioner to join their Care Home Liaison Team in Knowsley. This role involves coordinating care for service users, developing care plans, and working alongside an advanced clinician. Candidates must be a qualified Registered Nurse with mental health experience. The position offers opportunities for professional development and involves working in a supportive, multi-disciplinary environment focused on improving the quality of care for residents.

Benefits

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Must provide high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Ability to work autonomously and make clinically appropriate decisions.
• Qualified to act as a mentor for students.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for service users through assessment and evaluation.
• Develop individual care plans based on assessed needs.
• Liaise with family members and significant others.
• Supervise and undertake risk assessments.
• Ensure safeguarding requirements are followed.

Skills

Registered Nurse - mental health

Experience with dementia

Autonomy in clinical decision-making

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity within our Care Home Liaison Team in Knowsley for a Community Mental Practitioner (Registered Nurse- mental health) to work alongside the Advanced Clinician in Mental Health.

Knowsley Care Home liaison is an integrated team which supports the mental and physical health and wellbeing of care home residents to deliver an improved level of quality of care and patient safety for residents.

Our aim is to support residents, families and carers to plan for future healthcare needs and to reduce the number of avoidable, non-elective hospital attendances, admissions and readmissions.

Opportunities for continuing professional development such as Master's modules are encouraged. Experience of dementia/ older adults/ care homes would be desirable.

To provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within community services. To function as named nurse to service users undertaking assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.

To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team. To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team. To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs. To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team. To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.

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.

Responsibilities

1. To 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 Advanced Practitioner and line manager.
2. To 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. To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. To 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. To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
6. To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
7. To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
8. To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users.
9. To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
11. To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communications.
12. To give and receive accurate up-to–date information regarding service users’ care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the trust.
13. To have accurate and up-to–update knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025