Mental Health Practitioner - Inpatient

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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, The main duty is to be working as a registered nurse practitioner on Weaver 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., 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.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen on Weaver Ward to work as a Nurse practitioner. Weaver Ward is a 16 bedded female 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.

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.