Senior Clinical Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a band 6 nurse to support the clinical team in delivering high-quality care. The successful candidate will demonstrate resilience, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to provide managerial support. Responsibilities include monitoring care standards, developing care pathways, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. DBS check is required. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Ability to provide clinical and managerial support in a ward setting.
• Demonstrates resilience, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
• Commitment to quality improvement and person-centered care.
• DBS check required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor standards of service user care through caseload supervision.
• Assist in developing integrated care pathways and assessments.
• Ensure clinical environments promote health and safety.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team collaborations.
• Set standards of care based on sound research findings.

Skills

Resilience

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Coaching leadership

Quality improvement

Education

Registered nurse (band 6)

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 nurse to support the Clinical Team Manager and Clinical Leadership Team to deliver high quality safe and effective care.

This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial support to team members.

The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement and an attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (including adults barred list).

The post holder will assist the Clinical Team Manager in carrying continuing professional and managerial responsibility for the ward. They will operate as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team, undertaking a balance of managerial and clinical activity to ensure continuity of care for service users on their journey through the acute service.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Implement caseload supervision to monitor the standards of service user care and ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
• Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
• Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.
• Provide information, education and support for family members, carers and other relevant professionals.
• Give/receive regular managerial/clinical supervision as per Trust policy.
• Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user’s personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.
• Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.
• Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
• Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Registered nurse (band 6) with the ability to provide clinical and managerial support within a ward setting.
• Demonstrates resilience, problem solving and interpersonal skills; commitment to coaching leadership, quality improvement and person-centered care.
• Supports service users and carers in care planning and respects diverse beliefs and needs.
• DBS check required (adults barred list disclosure).

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 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 security mental health facilities.

We are committed to delivering 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 are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to improve quality and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Additional information

We offer flexible working and will consider flexible working requests for this role.

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025