Recovery-Focused Nurse Practitioner (Mental Health)

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Waterloo

On-site

GBP 30,000 - 40,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a dedicated nurse within the South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre team. The post covers inpatient and community settings, delivering high-quality, evidence-based care within a recovery-focused framework.

Regular clinical supervision and development support will be provided to aid your professional growth and service user outcomes. Join a large Trust committed to delivering safe, compassionate care; you will work with the multi-disciplinary

Qualifications

To provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
To function as named nurse/keyworker to service users undertaking assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
To support and improve the physical health of outcomes of service users within the Community Mental Health Team through assessment, monitoring, health promotion And liaison with primary and secondary care services.
To contribute to the assessment and management of service users with co-existing Mental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.

Responsibilities

To coordinate the physical 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 user's physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user's care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior team members, through performance management and audit.
To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to service users.
To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.
To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service user's physical care.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.