Senior Nurse Practitioner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated mental health practitioner to join its Division for service users and carers. The role focuses on high-quality, evidence-based care within inpatient and community settings, aligned to the recovery model.

You will act as named nurse or keyworker, providing assessment, planning and evaluation, while supervising colleagues and contributing to patient safety, leadership, and education within the team.

Qualifications

• 2+ years post-registration mental health experience required.
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Experience to manage cases and supervise staff.
• Ability to work autonomously within a team and across agencies.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, evidence-based care within the division for service users and carers.
• Lead as a named nurse/keyworker in assessment, planning and review of care.
• Supervise care for service users with high-risk needs and complex presentations.
• Coordinate with the multi-disciplinary team and mentor students.
• Support physical health outcomes and liaise with primary/secondary care.

Skills

Leadership

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Mentorship/Supervision

Multidisciplinary working

Decision making

Autonomous practice

Education

RMN / AHP / Social Worker

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Identity verification

Candidates attending interview will be required to provide original photographic identification where available. Where suitable photographic identification is not available, a photograph will be taken at interview for identity verification purposes. Successful candidates will also be required to complete digital identity and right to work checks via TrustID, including facial recognition and image matching technology, to verify their identity throughout the recruitment and onboarding process. Identity verification will also be undertaken on the first day of employment in line with NHS employment check requirements.

Job overview

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.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is interested in developing as a practitioner and person. Development opportunities will be available and regular clinical supervision and support will be provided.

Main duties of the job

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 undertaking assessment, 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 on information 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-existing Mental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To coordinate the physical care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.

To ensure that the service user's physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user's care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior team members, through performance management and audit.

To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to service users.

To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.

To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.

To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service user's physical care.

To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.

To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.

To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service user's care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.

To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.

To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user's care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.

To under the guidance of a supervisor provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested e.g. for a service user multi disciplinary team meeting or CPA review.

To contribute to teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.

To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.

To actively participate in service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.

To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and wellbeing to help them to obtain their optimum health.

To react pro-actively in cases of service user physical health crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.

To assist in the assessment and supervision of nursing and other students.

To assess and monitor the physical health of service users, seeking advice and support from medical staff as appropriate.

To actively participate in team meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of research based practice.

To participate in the induction of new staff.

To maintain safe custody of medicines, sharps and other clinical equipment.

To manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.

Person specification

Expeirence

Essential criteria

• Minimum 2 years post-registration mental health experience
• Evidence of leadership and management skills
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
• Evidence of supervising staff
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance
• Experience in change management and policy formulation
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. RADAR
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Appropriate professional qualification (e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker)
• Evidence of post-registration CPD

Desirable criteria

• Working towards Masters level education

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of mental health legislation, CPA, safeguarding, equality and human rights, clinical governance and professional codes of conduct
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs' responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge bas e

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
• Professional attitude
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• The ability to lead change management
• Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area
• Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
• Risk assessment and management
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
• Autonomous practice
• Leadership and supervision
• Multidisciplinary working

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.