Registered Mental Health Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health services trust in the UK is seeking a caring and compassionate Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their team. The role involves coordinating care for service users with dementia and requires excellent communication, teamwork, and resilience. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop leadership skills and participate in a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Opportunity for career development

Qualifications

• Motivated to make a real difference in the lives of people living with dementia.
• Willingness to learn and develop as a leader within the team.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the care of service users under supervision.
• Ensure care plans meet assessed needs.
• Liaise with family members and other carers.
• Develop risk management plans.
• Direct unqualified staff in care delivery.
• Communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary team members.

Skills

Resilience

Empathy

Strong communication

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

About the role

Are you a caring and compassionate individual looking to make a positive difference in patient care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as a band 5 registered mental health nurse. You will gain valuable experience and skills across the field of Dementia, incorporating both physical and mental health.

Fern Ward is a 16-bed complex care dementia unit. We have a robust MDT with a range of professionals working together as a team to support our service users. Our ward provides a high standard of assessment and treatment for those with Dementia and BPSD (Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia).

We are seeking someone with a passion for care of older persons and dementia who is willing and eager to learn.

The successful candidate will be supported to develop into a leader within the team, supporting more junior staff on shift.

You will be motivated to make a real difference in the lives of people living with dementia, where passion, empathy, strong communication and excellent teamwork are essential qualities for this role.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, problem‑solving and interpersonal skills with the support of the full MDT and supervision of the management team.

This post is open to experienced candidates as well as newly registered nurses who can join our preceptorship programme.

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 unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
• To participate in setting 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 which has an impact on the service user’s 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.
• To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service user’s care in the reviews and multi‑disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.
• To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• To support services users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is being used to admit the service user to hospital. To ensure that service user rights under the Mental Health Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented.
• To provide and co‑ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
• To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.

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.

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.

Benefits & Flexibility

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025