Senior Nurse Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a community mental health nursing role at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre. You will provide high quality, evidence-based care within inpatient and community services, guided by the recovery model and a commitment to social inclusion.

You will act as a named nurse and mentor to students, lead within a multidisciplinary team, and collaborate with primary and secondary care services to support dual diagnosis and complex needs.

Qualifications

• Provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
• Work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
• Act as named nurse/keyworker to service users undertaking assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model.
• Participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
• Supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
• Work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
• Support and improve the physical health outcomes of service users within the Community Mental Health Team through assessment, monitoring, health promotion and liaison with primary and secondary care services.
• Contribute to the assessment and management of service users with co-existing Mental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.

Responsibilities

Job description

• To provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
• To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
• To function as named nurse/keyworker to service users undertakingassessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
• To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
• To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
• To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based oninformation received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
• To support and improve the physical health of outcomes of service users within the Community Mental Health Team through assessment, monitoring, health promotion And liaison with primary and secondary care services.
• To contribute to the assessment and management of service users with co-existingMental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.

Come and join us for a unique job opportunity at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre! We are working towards delivering a thoroughly modern mental health service that offers excellent standards of care and meaningful interventions., 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.