Senior Nurse Practitioner

Main area: Community Adult recovery – Mental Health Services

Grade Band: 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 350-MHC6809946

Site: Wakefield House

Town: Warrington

Salary: £37,338 – £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 14/01/2025 23:59

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 take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. 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.

Job overview

The Warrington Recovery Team (Adult Community Hub) is looking to recruit a dedicated and committed B6 Senior Nurse Practitioner to join our caring and supportive team.

We are a highly regarded, well-led multidisciplinary service, providing excellent care, treatment, and support to adults with significant mental health needs within the Borough of Warrington.

As a B6 Senior Nurse Practitioner, you will provide NICE guidance interventions, work as part of an MDT, and support service users with complex mental health needs. You will work closely with carers and families and liaise with partner agencies to achieve the best outcomes for our service users.

Our office base is Wakefield House, and our office hours are currently Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM.

Main duties of the job

As a B6 Senior Nurse Practitioner in the team, you will:

1. Work as part of an MDT to provide care and treatment for service users with complex mental health needs, delivering specific NICE guidance interventions.
2. Undertake clinic duties as required and contribute to office duty on a rota basis.
3. Liaise with other services and work closely with carers and families, alongside our wider partner agencies, to ensure the best outcomes for our service users.
4. Receive ongoing clinical and management supervision and have opportunities for CPD as part of this role.

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 commissioned for services covering 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

The team welcomes any informal contact from candidates prior to interview who may wish to discuss this role in more detail.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Up to date Professional Registration (to be maintained) on the appropriate part of the NMC register and hold a current NMC registration.
• Post registration training in a relevant field.
• Leadership/Management training.

Knowledge/experience

• Experience of working in an acute environment.
• Experience of mentorship, supervision, and coordination of staff.
• Experience of working as a Nurse in Charge/Shift Coordinator.
• Experience of Care Planning process.
• Working in a multiagency framework.
• Demonstrate a contribution to the change management process.
• Experience in positive leadership of a team.
• Demonstrate experience of problem-solving approaches.
• Recovery Model.
• Mental Health Act (1983).
• Effective Care Coordination.
• Relevant National policies and guidance.
• Evidence-based and reflective practice.
• An overview of the Trust’s objectives.

Values

• Accountability.
• Support.
• High professional standards.
• Responsive to service users.
• Engaging leadership style.
• Transparency and honesty.
• Discreet.
• Change Oriented.

Skills

• Demonstrate sound leadership qualities and an understanding of management styles.
• Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting.
• Ability to delegate and coordinate.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Ability to utilize assessment skills and tools effectively.
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings.
• Able to present factual information and refer questions to others where appropriate.
• Able to deal with sensitive issues with tact and diplomacy.
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues.
• Ability to maintain accurate and up-to-date clinical records.
• Ability to identify and minimize risk effectively.
• Ability to travel in the course of performing duties.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

FULFILL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country, offering specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales, and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.

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