Job summary
- Main area
- Later Life and Memory Service (Community) - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 27 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6451019
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harry Blackman House
- Town
- StHelens
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 12/08/2024
Employer heading
Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Band 6
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Job overview
Ensure that Trust policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff within their scope of responsibility
We are seeking to recruit a full time Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. 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. The job itself can be challenging but rewarding and provides job satisfaction.
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 assessments of older adults in our care, medication reviews and liaison/support to carers. There will be an expectation that the SNP would be able to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network.
We would encourage applicants who have a professional registration as a mental health nurse or occupational therapist to apply.
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/Occupational Therapist 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 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.
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
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
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE:
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with persons with dementia.
- Experience of mentorship, supervision and co-ordination of staff.
- Experience of working as a Nurse in Charge.
- Experience of Care Planning process
- Working in a multi-agency framework
- Demonstrate a contribution to change management process
- Experience in positive leadership of a team
- Demonstrate experience of problem solving approaches
- The principles of person centred
Desirable criteria
- Working within a memory clinic setting
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained), on the appropriate part of the NMC / HCPC register and hold a current NMC / HCPC registration
- Assessor/Mentorship Training
Desirable criteria
- Post registration training in relevant field
- Leadership/Management training
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Communication skills
- Basic IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samantha Wright
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744 415615
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