Senior Clinical Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is looking for an experienced Senior Clinical Nurse Band 6 to join the Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital. This role involves providing high standards of care to service users in a supportive environment, working alongside a dedicated team. Candidates should have excellent communication skills and a compassionate approach, with the opportunity for ongoing training and flexible working arrangements. The position offers a chance to make a significant impact on service user recovery and care quality.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Comprehensive training provided

Qualifications

• Experience as an inpatient nurse or within mental health settings.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
• Commitment to delivering excellent care.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of care to service users in a psychiatric intensive care unit.
• Work in a trauma-informed way to support service user recovery.
• Participate in ongoing training and development.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Compassionate and caring

Flexibility

Job description

Are you an experienced inpatient nurse? Have you moved on from inpatient care but miss it? Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?

Come and join our fabulous new team on Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital.

We're recruiting for the following roles

• Senior Clinical Nurse Band 6

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to attend an interview on the 31st July 2025. You’ll have the opportunity to talk to the interview panel and get a feel for who we are and what the job role is about.

This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.

The PICU is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard‑working and dedicated family of staff who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.

The range of skills you can learn and develop while working on the PICU is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well as provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem‑solve and manage a challenging setting.

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.

Please view the job descriptions and person specifications for each role. You should state on your application form which role(s) you would like to be considered for.

Newton Ward is a 10‑bedded male ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short‑term intensive assessment, treatment and support to service users who are experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.

To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma‑informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.

Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our PICU environment.

This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025