Senior Mental Health PractitionerNHS

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit a full time Senior Mental Health Practitioner to join our Later Life and Memory Service in St Helens. We are a forward thinking, friendly and busy team aiming for high quality service provision to older adults in our area. You would join a busy, well established team who are supportive and welcoming. The job itself can be challenging but rewarding and provides job satisfaction.

We would like you to have some demonstrable experience of working within mental health setting and / or with adults with a dementia diagnosis and be keen to develop your professional skills in this clinical area.

The role will involve supporting with assessments of older adults in our care, medication reviews and liaison/support to carers. There will be an expectation that the SNP would be able to develop positive working relationships with the wider care network.

We would encourage applicants who have a professional registration as a mental health nurse to apply.

Encouragement is given should you wish to discuss this vacancy further.

Main duties of the job

The Older adults mental health hub (LLAMS) supports individuals who have are undergoing assessment and have established diagnosis of cognitive impairment/dementia. The team is 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 a passion for working in this field.

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.

Job description

The post holder will be based within the LLAMS team and will :

Provide assessments/reviews and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload

Act as named professional/key worker and coordinate care between services

Hold a caseload of people with a dementia diagnosis or older adult mental health needs.

Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities

Provide advice and support for service users and carers

Support of student nurses in the team

Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload

Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication

Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT

Be part of the duty team rota and triage referrals appropriately.

Attend regular supervision and team meetings

Participate in training opportunities

Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as peoples needs change

Monitor medication

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.