MH Practitioner with MH Triage & Response (inc Decision Unit)

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Nurse Practitioner for their innovative Mental Health Triage and Response team. This role is pivotal in providing immediate support to individuals in crisis, working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to ensure timely assessments and personalized care plans. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, effective communication, and problem-solving skills while navigating the complexities of mental health services. Join a dedicated organization committed to delivering high-quality care and making a meaningful impact in the community. Flexible working arrangements are available to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-registration experience in mental health.
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide response to Street Triage Car Service and manage Section 136.
• Collaborate with other health professionals and agencies for crisis care.

Skills

Effective Communication

Problem Solving

Leadership Skills

Risk Assessment

Crisis Management

Education

Degree Level Qualification (RMN, AHP, Social Worker)

Post Registration Study

Job description

Job summary

Main areaSenior Nurse Practitioner Mental Health Triage And ResponseGradeBand 6ContractPermanentHours

Full time

Part time

Job ref350-MHC7100025EmployerMersey Care NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteLiverpool/ Warrington and SouthportTownWarrington/ Liverpool/ SouthportSalary£37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rataSalary periodYearlyClosing07/04/2025 23:59Interview date14/04/2025

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Band 6

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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.

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Job overview

The Mental Health Triage and Response team is a dynamic new service which incorporates the Multiple Award winning street triage car, Places of Safety and the new Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit which fall within the Mersey Care Footprint.

It plays an important role in Mersey Care's response to the national roll out of Right Care Right Person across the region.

The clinical decision unit is part of the wider Mental Health Triage and Response service, alongside our dedicated health based places of safety (awarded the Seni Lewis award at the 2024 HSJ Patient Safety Awards) and the Street Triage cars (awarded the2022 NHS parliamentary award for Urgent and Emergency Care)

Level 2 Police vetting is required for working alongside Police/BTP

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Practitioner within the Mental Health Triage and Response Team will include providing a response to Street Triage Car Service, the management of Section 136 and the operating of the identified Places of Safety and Clinical Decision Unit.

You will work collaboratively along side other Registered Mental Health Practitioner, healthcare support workers and also with Police forces, NWAS, Local Authorities, Acute Trust colleagues and Mental Health Services.

The Mental Health Triage and Response Team and Clinical Decision Unit will support service users presenting in crisis and ensure that their needs are met within the identified places of safety and assist with a timely assessment and safety planning.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, problem solve, recognise and assess risk and be able to effectively support the service user in developing personalised safety plans.

Being able to work across our service is an important part of this role

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

Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision as per Trust policy.

Participate in supervision to monitor standards of service user care and documentation.

Assist with screening and telephone triage of referrals, prioritizing as appropriate. Provide information for referrers, service users and carers.

Formulate, contribute and participate in the development and implementation of specialist assessments, including risk, with patients requiring crisis care. Formulate and deliver plans of care as appropriate in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team

Carry out generic and specialist assessments including risk with patients requiring crisis care.

Formulate and deliver plans of care as appropriate.

Provide short-term evidence based practices and fixed term interventions

Support the delivery of education and self-help materials within a variety of locations.

Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.

Ensure the clinical environment is conductive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each services user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi- disciplinary Team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings and evidenced based practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker

Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice

Desirable criteria

Working towards master level education

Knowledge/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.

Values

Continuous Improvement

Accountability

Respectfulness

Enthusiasm

Support

High professional standards

Responsive to service users

Engaging leadership style

Strong customer service belief

Transparency and honesty

Discreet

Change oriented

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 CBU 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 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.

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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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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

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

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Applicant requirements

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.