Site: Bluebell Medical Centre and Whiston Primary Care Resource Centre, Town: Huyton
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 20/01/2025
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 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 have 2 positions to offer in the Knowsley CMHT. These vacancies offer a position for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports the Biopsychosocial assessments of patients to access mental health support.
Note: This job is only suitable for an NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse.
The core working hours of this role are Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm excluding bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work in the Secondary Mental Health setting, offering specialist mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions. This role allows the practitioner to provide specialist advice, support, and assessment to patients.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure they can transition between services with the best support in place.
The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support them in their needs.
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. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health.
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
1. To provide a safe and effective day-to-day operation of the service, including the handling of clinical enquiries.
2. To undertake assessments of individual patient’s difficulties, establishing risk and determining the appropriate course of action.
3. Work with patients to support adherence to prescribed treatments, monitoring mental health medication.
4. Provide and receive information, some of which may be contentious, sensitive, and complex to and from individuals and their families/carers.
5. To collate and organise contemporaneous information about opportunities and resources in the local area which may be of benefit to patients referred to the service.
6. To evaluate outcomes and maintain accurate clinical data.
7. Utilise clinical curiosity in assessing and developing treatment plans with patients.
8. Ensure systems/pathways are in place to enable smooth transition between services.
9. Regularly be involved in quality improvement activity/audit/significant event review and clinical meetings.
10. Facilitate joint work with Secondary Care providers, primary care, and Voluntary Care Sector (VCS).
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/Knowledge
* 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.
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
* Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit.
* Leadership Skills.
* Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
* Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
VALUES
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
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