Main area: Mental Health Nursing
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time roles available)
Job ref: 350-MHC6871321
Employer: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Various Sites across Liverpool and Sefton
Town: Liverpool/Sefton
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 24/01/2025
Mental Health Nurse Recruitment Event: Liverpool & Sefton
Band 5
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 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. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
We are holding a recruitment event in January 2025 for qualified mental health nurses for our Sefton and Liverpool wards.
Sefton Wards available are:
* Alt Ward
* Morris Ward
* Dee Ward
* Pine Ward
* Dunes Ward
Liverpool Wards Available are:
* Brunswick Ward
* Windsor Ward
* Fern Ward
* Rathbone Rehabilitation Centre
Please note: Brunswick and Windsor Wards will be relocating to the brand new Mossley Hill site in Autumn 2025.
You’ll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working together with other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:
* Accountability
* Respect
* Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* To coordinate the 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 users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
* To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
* To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
* To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
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 11 million people.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To coordinate the 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 users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual.
* To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
* To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
* To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
* To participate in setting 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 which has an impact on the service user’s 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 users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.
* To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
* To support services users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is being used to admit the service user to hospital. To ensure that service user rights under the Mental Health Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented.
* 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Appropriate professional qualification by RMN.
* Registered on the NMC register.
* Evidence of post registration study.
* Approved training in phlebotomy.
Experience
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems.
* A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Possess good listening and negotiation skills.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Health and Safety/Risk Management, Mental Health Act.
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.
* Appreciate the process of standard setting and audit.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
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 [emailprotected] 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 to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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