Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Nurse Practitioner to join the North First Response Service in Liverpool. The role focuses on triage and assessments for individuals in mental health crisis, requiring resilience, strong problem-solving, and inter-personal skills to support team members and service users.

The post holder will drive quality improvement, uphold Recovery principles, and work with service users and carers to ensure care is person-centred within a physically and

Qualifications

• Experience as a Nurse Practitioner in mental health and crisis triage.
• Strong clinical judgment and risk management abilities.
• Proven leadership and ability to support a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct mental health triage and assess patients in crisis.
• Provide sound clinical and managerial advice to team members.
• Lead on care planning and coordination with service users and carers.

Skills

Mental health assessment

Risk assessment

Clinical leadership

Team support

Communication skills

Education

Nurse Practitioner qualification

NMC registration

Tools

EMIS/SystmOne

Job description

The First Response Service is looking to recruit a passionate, experienced Senior Nurse Practitioner to join the team in the North First Response Service.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate you will undertake triage and assessments for people who present in Mental health crisis. You will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial advice and support to team members.

The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for quality improvement and an attitude which respects and values service users' choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be competent in mental health assessment and identifying and managing risk.
• Professional responsibility for the Community Mental Health Team and in the setting and adhering to the overall standards, which will include assessment of need and delivery of care within the context of Effective Care Coordination.
• The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
• The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery.

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.