Job Description

Come and join us at The Norris Green Mental health hub. We are currently recruiting band 6 nurses to work within our community mental health teams. The Norris Green Hub serves a population of over 200,00 people across five community teams and is the largest CMHT hub in Merseycare.



We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We are a modern workforce offering flexible working and making the most of data analytics and technology in the delivery of care.



We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.



We will guarantee your career development through a variety training packages and learning opportunities. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team comprising over 40 nurses and allied professionals with a wealth of experience here at Norris Green.



The Norris Green Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. 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 experience working in this field since qualifying.



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



As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours.



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.



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



Provide assessments 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 severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities



Provide advice and support for service users and carers



Participate in delivery of group interventions



Supervision of Junior colleagues 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



Be part of a duty rota



Monitor medication and administer depot medication