Mental Health Nurse - Clock View Hospital

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Care Coordinator to work within a multidisciplinary team at Clock View hospital. The role involves developing and managing care plans for service users, ensuring compliance with guidelines, and leading unregistered staff in delivering high-quality care. The ideal candidate will have experience in care coordination and be committed to supporting individuals in their recovery journey. The organization offers flexibility in working arrangements as well.

Qualifications

• Experience in care coordination and assessment planning.
• Ability to develop and manage care plans.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with families and healthcare teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for service users under supervision.
• Develop risk management plans for service users.
• Direct unregistered staff to ensure high standards of care.

Job description

Overview

Join our team at Clock View hospital, which provides therapeutic environments and approaches to care designed to improve recovery, wellbeing and reduce lengths of stay. You’ll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working together with other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care. Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:

• Continuous improvement
• Accountability
• Respect
• Enthusiasm
• Support

If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

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 line manager.

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 laid down in the care plan.

To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.

To direct unregistered staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.

About Mersey Care

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.

Our commitment

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.

Contact for details

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kiera Rafferty
Job title: Modern Matron
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 0151 330 7223