Mental Health Nurse - Weaver Ward

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a dedicated individual to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves coordinating care for service users and ensuring high-quality person-centred care. You will develop care plans, manage risks, and lead unqualified staff. The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong leadership skills and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting assessments and delivering care plans.
• Ability to liaise effectively with families and health professionals.
• Leadership skills to direct unqualified staff.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for service users efficiently.
• Ensure personalized care plans are executed.
• Develop risk management plans for service users.

Job description

You’ll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working alongside other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do:

• 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.

Your responsibilities include:

1. Coordinating the care of service users by conducting assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of their care in accordance with the care programme approach, under the supervision of the line manager.
2. Ensuring that the care plan is developed to meet the individual’s assessed needs and that care is delivered as outlined in the plan by qualified staff.
3. Liaising with family members, carers, and significant others during assessment and care plan development.
4. Developing a risk management plan for service users, incorporating contributions from the team, and ensuring all relevant parties are aware and acting accordingly.
5. Directing unqualified staff to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to service users.

Mersey Care is one of the largest providers of physical and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people and offering specialist inpatient and community services, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. We are one of only three trusts in the UK with high secure mental health facilities.

Our commitment is to ‘perfect care’—safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to excel and work collaboratively with service users, families, and carers to shape future services. We are also undertaking a programme of organizational and service transformation to enhance quality and reduce costs.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further information or informal visits, please contact:

• Name: Sam McLevey
• Job Title: Ward Manager
• Email: [e-mail]
• Telephone: [phone]