Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Duty Community Mental Health Nurse
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Two posts available for a Band 6 Duty Practitioner
One based in Knowsley
One based in St Helens
Our Adults 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.
If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have experience working in this field.
About the Role
The role will include providing high quality evidenced-based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medications, administration of depots, providing expertise and advice, care coordination in the form of key worker and supervising junior staff members.
Responsibilities
- To be a point of contact for people with severe and enduring mental illness under recovery and psychological services
- Supervise band 5 staff and support workers within the team
- Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
- Provide support and advice for service users and carers and their families
- Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change
- Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on colleagues caseload if required
- Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication
- Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT and wider team
- Attend regular supervision meetings and support student nurses on placement
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About the Employer
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 requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jenny Maynard / Sarah Whittle
- Job title: Clinical Team Managers
- Email address: jenny.maynard@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 351 8600
- Sarah.Whittle2@merseycare.nhs.uk - manager of St Helens CMHT
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