Deputy Ward Manager/Senior Clinical Nurse (Psychiatric Intensive Care)
Band 6
Main area: Psychiatrist Intensive Care
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis)
Job ref: 350-MHC6755100-C
Site: Clock View, Town: Liverpool
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 14/03/2025
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. We also 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
Are you an experienced inpatient nurse? Have you moved on from inpatient care but miss it? Are you caring, compassionate, flexible and have excellent communication skills?
Come and join our fabulous team on Newton Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Clock View Hospital.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for individuals interested and committed to delivering excellent service user care within a safe, secure, and therapeutic environment.
Newton ward is a dynamic and challenging environment, with a hard-working and dedicated staff team who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to the diverse client base that we care for.
The range of skills you can learn and develop is expansive and varied. Working in this environment can encourage you to become a dynamic, creative, and strong leader as well provide you with the ability to think on your feet, problem solve and manage a challenging setting.
On Newton ward we encourage staff to gain further knowledge by enriching their skills through the opportunity to enrol on many of our development, leadership and training courses.
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
Newton Ward currently supports all wards across the Sefton, Liverpool and Kirkby footprint and now provides psychiatric intensive care services to the whole of the Mental Health Division.
Newton Ward is a 12 bedded mixed ward based at Clock View Hospital that provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to service users who are experiencing a mental health crisis and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.
To maximise service user recovery, the team works in a trauma informed way. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.
Upon joining our team, we will ensure that you undergo both mandatory and bespoke training to fully equip you with the skills required to work within our psychiatric intensive care environment.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
Experience
* Knowledge of relevant Mental Health legislation
* Knowledge of Mental Health Nursing interventions
* Knowledge of clinical risk and Health & Safety Management
* Demonstrate knowledge of NMC guidelines
* Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurses’ responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
Values
* Accountability
* Respect
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
* Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to contribute to developing nursing excellence within the ward area
Other
* Professional attitude
* Flexibility
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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 to 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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