Community Mental Health Nurse - Recovery Service

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Senior Nurse to join our caring and compassionate team in a community mental health setting based in Kirkby.

We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.

The Kirkby Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. 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 experience working in this field since qualifying.

The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medication, administration of depots, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community.

As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours.

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'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.

Band: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Part-time

The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will :

Act as named professional/care coordinator and coordinate care between services

Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities

Supervision of Junior colleagues in the team

Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload

Attend regular supervision and team meetings

Participate in training opportunities

Be part of a duty rota

RMN, AHP, Social Worker)

Minimum 2 years post-registration mental health experience

Experience in change management and policy formulation

Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings

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

Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services

Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area

Risk assessment and management

Leadership and supervision

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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