Senior Nurse Practitioner

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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.

Job overview

The Mental Health Triage and Response service is a dynamic and progressive team which has achieved awards at a national level for the work it is doing to support emergency services and service users experiencing mental health crisis.

Due to the continued expansion of our team we are looking to recruit additional mental health practitioners who want to contribute to the development of the service and who are looking for the next step in their career.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Practitioner within the Mental Health Triage and Response Team will include providing a response to Street Triage Car Service, the management of Section 136 and the operating of the identified Places of Safety and Clinical Decision Unit.

You will work collaboratively along side other Registered Mental Health Practitioner, healthcare support workers and also with Police forces, NWAS, Local Authorities, Acute Trust colleagues and Mental Health Services.

The Mental Health Triage and Response Team and Clinical Decision Unit will support service users presenting in crisis and ensure that their needs are met within the identified places of safety and assist with a timely assessment and safety planning.

You will need to demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate, problem solve, recognise risk and be able to effectively support the service user.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Participate in regular clinical and managerial supervision as per Trust policy.

Participate in supervision to monitor standards of service user care and documentation.

Assist with screening and telephone triage of referrals, prioritizing as appropriate. Provide information for referrers, service users and carers.

Formulate, contribute and participate in the development and implementation of specialist assessments, including risk, with patients requiring crisis care. Formulate and deliver plans of care as appropriate in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary team

Carry out generic and specialist assessments including risk with patients requiring crisis care.

Formulate and deliver plans of care as appropriate.

Provide short-term evidence based practices and fixed term interventions

Support the delivery of education and self-help materials within a variety of locations.

Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non-statutory organisations.

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.

Ensure the clinical environment is conductive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each services user's personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi- disciplinary Team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings and evidenced based practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice

Desirable criteria

• Working towards master level education

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration experience in mental health.
• Evidence of leadership and management skills.
• Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
• Evidence of supervising staff.
• Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
• Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
• Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
• Experience in change management and policy formulation.
• Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
• Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
• Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Knowledge/Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
• Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
• Leadership Skills
• Ability to work within a CBU management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
• Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ECC guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs' responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
• Professional attitude.
• Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
• The ability to lead change management
• Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area

ability to contribute to 24/7 working

Essential criteria

• is the person able to work shifts including nights

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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 recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk 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 (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) 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.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 312.4KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 153.8KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)