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Job summary

Main area
Later Life and Memory Service (Community) - Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
350-MHC6450779
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Older Adults Community Hub StHelens
Town
StHelens
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 Per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/08/2024 23:59
Interview date
12/08/2024

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Mental Health Practitioner

Band 5

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Job overview

We are seeking to recruit a full time Nurse Practitioner to join our Later Life and Memory Service in StHelens. We are a forward thinking, friendly and busy team aiming for high quality service provision to older adults in our area. You would join a busy, well established team who are supportive and welcoming. 

We would like you to have some demonstrable experience of working within mental health setting and / or with adults with a dementia diagnosis and be keen to develop your professional skills in this clinical area.

The role will involve supporting with review of older adults in our care, medication follow up support and liaison/support to carers.   There will be an expectation that the practitioner would be able to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network. 

Encouragement is given should you wish to discuss this vacancy further.

Main duties of the job

The Older adults mental health hub (LLAMS) supports individuals who have are undergoing assessment and have established diagnosis of cognitive impairment/dementia. 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 a passion for working in this field.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to support service users and their families and challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels. 

Working for our organisation

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 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be based within the LLAMS team and will :

Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload

Act as named professional/care coordinator and  coordinate care between services  

Hold a caseload of people with a dementia diagnosis. 

Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities

Provide advice and support for service users and carers

Support of student nurses in the team

Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload

Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication

Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT 

Attend regular supervision and team meetings

Participate in training opportunities

Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change

Monitor medication 

Person specification

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 & 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.

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.

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP Social Worker
Desirable criteria
  • Degree
  • Evidence of post registration study.
  • Approved training in phlebotomy

Values

Essential criteria
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Samantha Wright
Job title
Team Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01744 415615
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