Mental Health Nurse Recruitment Event Liverpool & Sefton

Tripple Tree Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

About

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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is also commissioned for services that cover 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.

Our clinical services are provided across over 170 sites spanning a large part of the North West. Our services are supported by a corporate teams based at our offices in Kings Business Park, Prescot, and Hollins Park, Warrington.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces 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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Key details

Location

Site: Various Sites across Liverpool and Sefton

Town: Liverpool/Sefton

Postcode: L14 3PJ

Major / Minor Region: Merseyside

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time roles available)

• Full time
• Part time

Salary

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (Band 5)

Specialty

Main area: Mental Health Nursing

Interview date: 01/02/2025

Job overview

We are holding a recruitment event in January 2025 for qualified mental health nurses for our Sefton and Liverpool wards.

Sefton Wards available are: Alt Ward, Morris Ward, Dee Ward, Pine Ward and Dunes Ward.

Liverpool Wards Available are: Brunswick Ward, Windsor Ward, Fern Ward and Rathbone Rehabilitation Centre.

Please note: Brunswick and Windsor Wards will be relocating to the brand new Mossley Hill site in Autumn 2025.

You’ll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working together with other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:

• Continuous improvement
• Accountability
• Respect
• Enthusiasm
• Support

If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you.

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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 users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 users.
• To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence-based and research findings.
• To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.
• To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information which has an impact on the service user’s care.
• To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
• To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.
• To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.
• To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• To support services users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is being used to admit the service user to hospital. To ensure that service user rights under the Mental Health Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented.
• To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
• To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.

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Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.

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 [email protected] 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 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. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Appropriate professional qualification by RMN
• Registered on the NMC register

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of post registration study.
• Approved training in phlebotomy

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively.
• Possess good listening and negotiation skills
• Ability to work as a member of a team.
• Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Health and Safety/Risk Management, Mental Health Act
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.

Desirable criteria

• Appreciate the process of standard setting and audit.

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support

Documents

• Job description (, 241.6)PDFKB
• OH RISK ID (, 160.4)PDFKB
• A Great Place to Work (, 2.1)PDFMB
• Our People Promise and Charter (, 5.8)PDFMB
• Preceptorship Information (, 549.9)PDFKB
• Employee Benefits (, 950.7)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: John Murphy

Job title: Ward Manager

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 0151 250 5072