Senior Mental Health Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Senior Mental Health Practitioner for the Later Life and Memory Service (LLAMS) in St Helens. The post involves assessments of older adults, dementia care, medication reviews and liaison with carers and the wider care network.

Flexible working requests will be considered, and the role sits within a busy, multidisciplinary team dedicated to high-quality care. You will be part of a Trust that serves over 1.4 million people in the North West and

Qualifications

• This role requires a Registered Mental Health Nurse and experience in mental health settings, including dementia care.
• Ability to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network is essential.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to support service users and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload.
• Act as named professional/key worker and coordinate care between services.
• Hold a caseload of people with dementia or older adult mental health needs.
• Participate in MDT meetings and training opportunities.
• Provide advice and support for service users and carers.
• Support student nurses in the team.
• Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload.
• Monitor and manage medications as part of treatment plans.
• Be part of the duty team rota and triage referrals appropriately.

Skills

Assessment skills

Caseload management

MDT liaison

Dementia care

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

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.

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.

The post holder will be based within the LLAMS team and will :

• Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
• Act as named professional/key worker and coordinate care between services
• Hold a caseload of people with a dementia diagnosis or older adult mental health needs.
• Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
• Provide advice and support for service users and carers
• Support of student nurses in the team
• Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload
• Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication
• Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT
• Be part of the duty team rota and triage referrals appropriately.
• Attend regular supervision and team meetings
• Participate in training opportunities
• Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change
• Monitor medication

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026

£113,565 - £150,569 per annum, plus 7.5% R&R (non contractual) and 1% on call