Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join the Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. You will assess, review, and implement treatment plans for older adults, coordinating care with the MDT and supporting carers and staff.

The role requires RMN qualification and a passion for working in this field. You will contribute to supervision, training opportunities, and the development of care networks across the region.

Qualifications

• Experience working in mental health settings.
• Experience with older adults and dementia is desirable.
• Ability to develop treatment plans and coordinate care.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload.
• Act as named professional/key worker and coordinate care between services.
• Hold a caseload of people with a dementia diagnosis or older adult mental health needs.
• Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities.
• Provide advice and support for service users and carers.
• Support of student nurses in the team.
• Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload.
• Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication.
• Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT.
• Be part of the duty team rota and triage referrals appropriately.
• Attend regular supervision and team meetings.
• Participate in training opportunities.
• Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people's needs change.
• Monitor medication.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Team coordination

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

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.
The post holder will be based within the LLAMS team and will :

Responsibilities for the role including

• Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
• Act as named professional/key worker and coordinate care between services
• Hold a caseload of people with a dementia diagnosis or older adult mental health needs.
• Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
• Provide advice and support for service users and carers
• Support of student nurses in the team
• Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload
• Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication
• Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT
• Be part of the duty team rota and triage referrals appropriately.
• Attend regular supervision and team meetings
• Participate in training opportunities
• Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people's needs change
• Monitor medication

We are seeking to recruit a full time Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. We are a forward thinking, friendly and busy team aiming for high quality service provision to older adults in our area. You would join a busy, well established team who are supportive and welcoming. The job itself can be challenging but rewarding and provides job satisfaction.

We would like you to have some demonstrable experience of working within mental health setting and / or with adults with a dementia diagnosis and be keen to develop your professional skills in this clinical area.

The role will involve supporting with assessments of older adults in our care, medication reviews and liaison/support to carers. There will be an expectation that the SNP would be able to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network.

Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have a passion for working in this field.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to support service users and their families and challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.

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.