Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse
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Exciting Opportunity for a Senior Nurse in Kirkby
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Senior Nurse to join our caring and compassionate team in a community mental health setting based in Kirkby.
We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.
About the Role
The Kirkby Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The team is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community.
Responsibilities
- Provide high quality evidenced-based care
- Formulate risk management plans
- Supervise risk assessments
- Monitor medication
- Administer depots
- Provide expertise and advice
- Care co-ordination
- Supervise junior staff
- Work with service users with complex needs to assist them in planning and taking steps towards their recovery
- Promote signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community
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Additional Duties
- Be part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the team's working hours
About Mersey Care
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.
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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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Victoria Bryce
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: Victoria.Bryce2@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 330 6452
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