Are you a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker? Do you want to work in a innovative, enthusiastic Community Mental Health Team?
We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent full time Band 6 Community Mental Health practitioner to join the team at Moss House Community Mental Health Team.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified staff, however it will provide plenty of developmental opportunities to experienced professionals. The successful candidate will be supported with access to continued professional development, regular clinical supervision and opportunities for personal and professional growth.
We are looking for an individual with genuine enthusiasm for working in a community environment, supporting service users with their recovery to maximise their quality of life.
We welcome someone who is caring and who is motivated to provide high quality care with a recovery focused approach for a client group with complex mental health conditions.
Moss House CMHT strives for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.
The Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The teams are 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, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker 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, providing expertise and advice, coordinating care and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them to 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.
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 Community Mental Health Team and will :
Spend time in the community implementing psychosocial interventions.
Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
Act as named professional 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
Provide advice and support for service users and carers
Participate in delivery of group interventions
Supervision of Junior colleagues 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
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
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Apr 2025