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Are you a qualified Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker? Do you want to work in an innovative, enthusiastic Community Mental Health Team?

We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent full-time Band 6 Community Mental Health practitioner to join the team at Moss House Community Mental Health Team.

This post is not suitable for newly qualified staff, however it will provide plenty of developmental opportunities to experienced professionals. The successful candidate will be supported with access to continued professional development, regular clinical supervision, and opportunities for personal and professional growth.

We are looking for an individual with genuine enthusiasm for working in a community environment, supporting service users with their recovery to maximize their quality of life.

We welcome someone who is caring and who is motivated to provide high-quality care with a recovery-focused approach for a client group with complex mental health conditions.

Moss House CMHT strives for excellence and supports the Community Transformation model that enables our service users to access different specialty services across the community.

The Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The teams are 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, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker and have experience working in this field since qualifying.

The role will include providing high-quality evidenced-based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, providing expertise and advice, coordinating care, and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them in taking steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms, and wider resources available in the community.

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, as well as 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 costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will:

1. Spend time in the community implementing psychosocial interventions.
2. Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload.
3. Act as named professional and coordinate care between services.
4. Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
5. Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings, and training opportunities.
6. Provide advice and support for service users and carers.
7. Participate in delivery of group interventions.
8. Supervise junior colleagues in the team.
9. Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload.
10. Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication.
11. Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT.
12. Attend regular supervision and team meetings.
13. Participate in training opportunities.
14. Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people's needs change.

• Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker.
• Evidence of post-registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice.
• Working towards master level education.

• Minimum of 2 years post-registration experience in mental health.
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads.
• Evidence of supervising staff.
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies.
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers.
• Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
• Experience in change management and policy formulation.
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX.
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews.
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services.
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit.
• Leadership Skills.
• Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship, and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staff's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.

• Professional attitude.
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• The ability to lead change management.
• Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward/team area.

• Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.