Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (various shift patterns available on a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year basis.)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7783211
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pine Ward
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Mental Health Nurse
Band 5
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
NO SPONSERSHIP AVAILABLE
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Pine Ward to work as a Nurse practitioner. Pine Ward is a 20 bedded mixed acute ward.
This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and leadership support to team members.
The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement and attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
The main duty is to be working as a registered nurse practitioner on Pine Ward.
This will include working a variety of shift patterns including mornings, afternoons, long days and night duties.
To promote and provide safe and good patient care to all service users and support their families
To be able to work within a team and autonomously when appropriate to ensure that service is delivered.
To work as part of a multi disciplinary team and liaise with all agencies to promote safe and up to date practice for service users.
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
Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment
Ensure that clinical are appropriately delegated to the relevant team member.
Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
In conjunction with the service management, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service management
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
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
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Appropriate professional qualification by RMN AHP Social Worker
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Discreet
- Transparency and honesty
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
- Elle Fashoni
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01704 383163
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