Community Mental Health Nurse

About the role

Please note this is a Community based role which will require the post holder to be able to travel regularly and within a timely manner between multiple sites as part of performing duties. Come and join us at Leigh Moss Community Hub, based at Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool L14. We are currently recruiting a band 5 nurse to work within our community mental health team.

This is an exciting clinical role. There will be plenty of opportunity to work alongside our psychology team and we encourage and support our nurses to deliver psychological interventions such as our post diagnostic groups and cognitive stimulation therapy. We will guarantee your career development through a variety training packages and learning opportunities. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team with a wealth of experience here at Leigh Moss.

Importantly for you, we offer full support from our clinical leadership team. We pride ourselves on looking after our staff and their wellbeing. We are a contemporary workforce that offers flexible working and we make the most of our data analytics and technology. We are interested in hearing from newly qualified nurses who would like the opportunity to work in a forward thinking, warm and friendly, highly experienced multidisciplinary team.

That said, we also welcome applications from nurses who would like to move into this specialist community service recognising full transition training can be offered. This is a role in which you will be the lead professional and carry a case load of older people who are under our community mental health team. You will have support from a Multidisciplinary Team.

There is also the opportunity to support with the delivery of our post diagnostic groups. As a lead professional; you will be able to work autonomously and be decisive, whilst also being a supportive team player. You will need to re‑organise your day at short notice according to the needs of the team, so flexibility is essential. All NHS services, including ours, are working in challenging times as we try to improve care provision with limited resources, so enthusiasm, resilience and passion are absolutely crucial to making this role a success.

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.

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.

• 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…