Mental Health Nurse Recruitment Event: Liverpool & Sefton

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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, To coordinate the 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 users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan
To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users., + To coordinate the 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 users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual.
+ To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan
+ To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
+ To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
+ To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings
+ To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.
+ To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information which has an impact on the service user's care
+ To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
+ To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language
+ To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust
+ To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
+ To support services users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is being used to admit the service user to hospital. To ensure that service user rights under the Mental Health Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented
+ To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
+ To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to
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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.

We are holding a recruitment event in January 2025 for qualified mental health nurses for our Sefton and Liverpool wards.
Sefton Wards available are:
Alt Ward, Morris ward, Dee Ward, Pine ward and Dunes ward.
Liverpool Wards Available are:
Brunswick Ward, Windsor Ward, Fern Ward and Rathbone Rehabilitation Centre.
Please note: Brunswick and Windsor Wards will be relocating to the brand new Mossley Hill site in Autumn 2025 .
You'll be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team, working together with other healthcare professionals to deliver outstanding person-centred care.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do, they are:
+ Continuous improvement
+ Accountability
+ Respect
+ Enthusiasm
+ Support
If you share our values and want to be part of a team that makes a real difference, we want to hear from you., Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.