Bank - Mental Health Inpatient Nurse

We are recruiting experienced Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our Temporary Staffing Team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to increase our pool of bank staff working within the inpatient wards across the organisation. This includes:

• Warrington and Halton
• Liverpool
• Southport
• St Helens and Knowsley
Acute mental health care is a fast paced, dynamic environment. This leads to the teams on our wards working closely together and developing strong, supportive bonds. The experience you gain whilst working on our wards is invaluable. It`s an exciting time at Mersey Care as we continue to develop the highest quality services, supported by cutting edge innovation and research.
• This is a Bank post
Shortlisting planned for 23 October 2024 Interviews planned for 29 October 2024, As a bank worker, you will have a zero hours contract and will have the flexibility to choose when and where you would like to work. Our in-patient services predominately care for adults over the age of 18, in acute, PICU and LLAMS settings. As a registered mental health nurse on our bank you will be expected to:
• Provide service users with a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discriminationand harm.
• Be engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services tobenefit service users.
• Provide visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and act as a role model.
• Work by our Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasmand Support.
• Provide high quality, evidence based care for serviceusers and their carers within inpatient areas.
• Function as a registered mental health nurse assistingin assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused modelof care.
  
  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.