Research Nurse (Mental Health) Practitioner

NHS; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a skilled Mental Health Nurse Practitioner to join a new clinical service focused on treating complex mood disorders. The role involves assessment, intervention, and collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team, requiring specific qualifications in psychological interventions. This position offers a chance to contribute to innovative care solutions in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Evidence of post registration study in psychological intervention.
• Experience managing cases and supervising staff.
• Ability to work autonomously and in multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating care and conducting assessments for service users.
• Providing short-term evidence-based interventions.
• Liaising with family members and developing care plans.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Organisational Skills

Negotiation Skills

Education

Degree Level Qualification (e.g., RMN, AHP, Social Worker)

PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Working towards masters level education

Job description

This is an exciting and unique opportunity for a skilled and dedicated specialist Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with evidence of post registration study in an evidence based psychological intervention (e.g., PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to join a research-focused, new clinical service designed to provide assessment, recommendations and treatment for people with complex mood disorders ("difficult to treat depression") that have not responded to first-line treatments in either secondary or primary care settings.

As part of the multi-disciplinary team carrying out clinical procedures, you will contribute to the assessment and formulation of patients, alongside providing short-term evidence-based interventions under the supervision of the clinical lead.

Main duties of the job

For a full overview of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the job description.

Key responsibilities include:

Coordinating the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the supervision of the line manager.

Assessment, formulation and providing short-term, evidence-based interventions under the supervision of the clinical lead.

Liaising with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

Undertaking and supervising risk formulation and management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.

Participating in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings and participating in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for.

Giving and receiving accurate up-to-date information regarding service users' care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the Trust.

About us

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details of this role or contact the recruiting manager for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker.
• Evidence of post registration study in an evidence based psychological intervention, e.g., PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
• Working towards masters level education.

Knowledge/ Experience

• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads.
• Evidence of supervising staff.
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/ boundaries and with other agencies.
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of audit/ research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
• Experience in change management and policy formulation.
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX.
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews.
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
• Expertise in affective/ mood disorders including psychological and pharmacological management.
• Experience using data capture/ entry systems e.g. for electronic case report form systems for clinical trials.

Skills

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services.
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit.
• Leadership Skills.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ECC guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs' responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
• Professional attitude.
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• The ability to lead change management.
• Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the service/ team area.
• Understanding and experience working with mental health practitioners in primary care settings.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.