Charge Nurse, HMP Liverpool Band 5-6 development post

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 ethnic minorities, 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health and learning disability needs of our client group, in partnership with our Physical Health providers and HMPPS colleagues. HMP Liverpool is a Category B, male only, local prisons, in the Liverpool area. The service provides individual and group-based interventions based on the clinical needs of the population. The service is developing and will adopt the biopsychological model to inform practice and tailor interventions accordingly. These interventions will be individualised, and trauma informed, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management. Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health and learning disabilities within the wider prison. The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population., The successful candidate will working alongside fellow Nurses and the wider IMHT to support those in custody with mental health needs., Implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the policies and procedures relating to ordering, storage, checking and administration of drugs.

• As an internal care co-ordinator/case manager/care worker assess the total individual care needs of
patients and plan, implement and evaluate an agreed suitable programme of care and record interventions and actions appropriately.
• Liaise with the Patient Care Team (PCT)/ Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) and contribute to any changes
in a patient's individual treatment plans.
• Initiate and record daily programmes of meaningful activity and ensure that staff act in accordance
with ward and hospital timetables of activity.
• Assist the PCT/MDT in ensuring that the requirements of mental health legislation are fullymet.
• Ensure a high standard of hygiene is maintained on the ward and liaise with domestic staff as
necessary. To safeguard the well being of patients and staff through adherence to relevant policies and procedures e.g. infection control.
• Assist in the management of the ward and periodically take responsibility for the running of the service
at ward level.
• To take responsibility for the escort of patients outside the hospital.
• Escort/accompany patients within the sites as appropriate.
• Assist in the management of the ward and periodically take responsibility for the running of the service
at ward level.
• Ensure that the safety and security needs of the patients, patients' relatives and friends and the public
are met in accordance with appropriate standards.
• To have a detailed knowledge and the practical skills, in order to carry out all security duties as stated
by the NHS Safety and Security Directive and detailed in the Ashworth Security Procedures Manual.
• Maintain confidentiality of information.
• Take responsibility to maintain the standards of the ward environment.
• To report on incidents and complaints as required.
To provide and engage in clinical supervision and support ward staff asrequired.
• Participate in the induction of registered and none registered nursing staff in all aspects of nursing
and wardmanagement.
• To support newly qualified nurses through the preceptorship programme.
• To fully engage in discussions with supervisor on personal development plans and then take
responsibility for own personal development. Encourage the promotion of good relationships between visitors, members of the MHAC, the general public and the Secure & Specialist Learning Disability Division.
• Engage in ward and divisional audits, ensuring that quality standards are maintained.
• To always behave in a manner, which upholds the professional stature of Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Take relevant action on other duties allocated by the charge nurses and ward manager.
• To mobilise across the Secure & Specialist Learning Disability Division when required, in order to meet
the needs of the service.
• To maintain the dignity of service users at all times.
• To maintain service user confidentiality at all times both on and off duty.
• To maintain appropriate professional boundaries with service users at all times both on and off duty.
• To ensure that work is conducted in accordance with the Trusts' Human Rights and Equality and
Diversity Strategies. In exceptional circumstances to co-operate with reasonable requests from more senior staff to vary your area of work to meet unplanned clinical nee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form. Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you. We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications. The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

The post holder will have clinical responsibility via the application of relevant assessments and facilitating individual and group based interventions based on the holistic needs of the client group. The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services. Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve. Within the IMHT's, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

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.