Job summary
This is an exciting and unique opportunity for a skilled and dedicated specialist Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with evidence of post registration study in an evidence based psychological intervention (e.g., PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) to join a research-focused, new clinical service designed to provide assessment, recommendations and treatment for people with complex mood disorders ("difficult to treat depression") that have not responded to first-line treatments in either secondary or primary care settings.
As part of the multi-disciplinary team carrying out clinical procedures, you will contribute to the assessment and formulation of patients, alongside providing short-term evidence-based interventions under the supervision of the clinical lead.
Main duties of the job
For a full overview of the role and responsibilities, please refer to the job description.
Key responsibilities include:
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Undertaking and supervising risk formulation and management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details of this role or contact the recruiting manager for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details of this role or contact the recruiting manager for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker.
- Evidence of post registration study in an evidence based psychological intervention, e.g., PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Desirable
- Working towards masters level education.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable 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.
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
Desirable
- Expertise in affective/ mood disorders including psychological and pharmacological management.
- Experience using data capture/ entry systems e.g. for electronic case report form systems for clinical trials.
Skills
Essential
- 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 multi-disciplinary team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
- 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 service/ team area.
Desirable
- Understanding and experience working with mental health practitioners in primary care settings.
Values
Essential
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker.
- Evidence of post registration study in an evidence based psychological intervention, e.g., PG Dip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Desirable
- Working towards masters level education.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable 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.
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
Desirable
- Expertise in affective/ mood disorders including psychological and pharmacological management.
- Experience using data capture/ entry systems e.g. for electronic case report form systems for clinical trials.
Skills
Essential
- 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 multi-disciplinary team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
- 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 service/ team area.
Desirable
- Understanding and experience working with mental health practitioners in primary care settings.
Values
Essential
- 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
