Senior Mental Health Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; Sur place; GBP 40 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible working

Résumé du poste

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a full-time Senior Mental Health Practitioner for the Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. The role focuses on assessments of older adults, medication reviews and liaison with carers. A Registered Mental Health Nurse is encouraged to apply.

Flexible working options are considered, with a supportive multidisciplinary team in a busy, expanding service. The team seeks professionals who can develop strong partnerships within the wider care

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings, particularly with older adults or dementia.
• NHS registration and RMN qualification are essential.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required.

Responsabilités

• Conduct assessments of older adults in our care.
• Carry out medication reviews and liaise with carers.
• Build positive working relationships with the wider care network.
• Support service users and families with compassionate care.

Connaissances

Mental health assessment

Medication reviews

Carer liaison

Interpersonal skills

Formation

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Description du poste

We are seeking to recruit a full time Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. We are a forward thinking, friendly and busy team aiming for high quality service provision to older adults in our area. You would join a busy, well established team who are supportive and welcoming. The job itself can be challenging but rewarding and provides job satisfaction.

We would like you to have some demonstrable experience of working within mental health setting and / or with adults with a dementia diagnosis and be keen to develop your professional skills in this clinical area.

The role will involve supporting with assessments of older adults in our care, medication reviews and liaison/support to carers. There will be an expectation that the SNP would be able to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network.

We would encourage applicants who have a professional registration as a mental health nurse to apply.

Encouragement is given should you wish to discuss this vacancy further.

The Older adults mental health hub (LLAMS) supports individuals who have are undergoing assessment and have established diagnosis of cognitive impairment/dementia. The team is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community.

If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have a passion for working in this field.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to support service users and their families and challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Hall Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01744 415615

Elizabeth Reeve

ACP

01744 415615

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