Main area Older Adults Community - Mental Health Services Grade Band 6 Contract 12 months (fixed term to cover mat leave) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Weekends and late shifts (1-9) - Part-time hours also available) Job ref 350-MHC6948927
Site Leigh Moss CMHT Town Liverpool Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/02/2025 23:59
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 take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, 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.
Job overview
Come and join us at Leigh Moss Community Hub, based at Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool L14. We are currently recruiting a band 6 nurse to work within our community mental health teams. We can offer you an exciting clinical role that will interface with older people’s functional care pathways, dementia care pathways and our young onset dementia care pathways.
There is plenty of opportunity to work alongside our psychology team and we encourage and support our nurses to deliver psychological interventions such as our post diagnostic groups and cognitive stimulation therapy. We will guarantee your career development through a variety training packages and learning opportunities. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team with a wealth of experience here at Leigh Moss.
Importantly for you, we offer full support from our clinical leadership team. We pride ourselves on looking after our staff and their wellbeing. We are a contemporary workforce that offers flexible working, and we make the most of our data analytics and technology.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and :
1. Act as the lead professional for a caseload of complex people with dementia and people with mental health problems
2. Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
3. Supervise band 5 staff and support workers
4. Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
5. Provide support and advice for service users and carers
6. Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change
7. Participate in delivery of group interventions
8. Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload
9. Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication
10. Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holders will manage a caseload of clients with mental health conditions including dementia, acting as lead professional, providing nursing assessments and interventions on an individual and group basis. The role involves providing supervision for junior staff / students. The service operates a 7-day shift pattern between 8.00am and 9.00 pm.
The Memory Service forms an integral part of the Community Mental Health Team, providing a range of interventions for people living with mental health conditions. The team works across Liverpool and the post holder will be expected to deliver interventions for people in a variety of settings.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
* Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
* Working towards master level education
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in mental health.
* 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. DATIX
* 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.
* 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
* Leadership Skills
* Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
* Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
* Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
* Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
* 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 base
Personal Attributes
* 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.
Other
* Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
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