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We have an exciting opportunity for 2 permanent, full time Band 6 Community Mental Health practitioner to join the team at Knowsley Community Mental Health Team.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified staff, however it is suitable for qualified Mental Health Nurses
We are looking for an individual with genuine enthusiasm for working in a community environment, supporting service users to live their life and manage their mental health in order to maximise their recovery and quality of life.
We welcome someone who is caring and who is motivated to provide high quality care with a recovery focused approach for a client group with complex mental health conditions.
The successful candidate will be supported with access to continues professional development, regular clinical supervision and opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Knowsley CMHT strives for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.
The Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The teams are a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community.
If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have experience working in this field since qualifying.
The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills that will enable you to support service users and their families and challenge, motivate, influence and inspire your colleagues at all levels.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jenny Lenton Job title: Team Manager Email address: Jenny.lenton@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 351 8600
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