Senior Nurse Practitioner

Come and join us for a unique job opportunity at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre! We are working towards delivering a thoroughly modern mental health service that offers excellent standards of care and meaningful interventions.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is interested in developing as a practitioner and person. Development opportunities will be available and regular clinical supervision and support will be provided.

To provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.

To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.

To function as named nurse/keyworker to service users undertaking

assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.

To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.

To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.

To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.

To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on

information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.

To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.

To support and improve the physical health of outcomes of service users within the Community Mental Health Team through assessment, monitoring, health promotion And liaison with primary and secondary care services.

To contribute to the assessment and management of service users with co-existing

Mental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.

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.

To coordinate the physical 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 user’s physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior team members, through performance management and audit.

To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to service

users.

To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based and

research findings.

To participate in the systematic monitoring and…