Community Mental Health Nurse (MALE ONLY ) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mai 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Mehefin 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Liverpool, L22 5RX |
| Cwmni: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8035227/350-MHC7930542-A |
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PLEASE NOTE: This is a community based role with will require the successful postholder to travel regularly between multiple sites in order to perform duties.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to a genuine occupational requirement, this role is currently restricted to male applicants only.
Our Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. 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 experience working in this field since qualifying.
The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medication, administration of depots, 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, to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Liferooms and wider resources available in the community.
As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours.
The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and :
Act as the lead professional for a caseload of complex people with dementia and people with mental health problems
Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
Supervise band 5 staff and support workers
Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
Provide support and advice for service users and carers
Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change
Participate in delivery of group interventions
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
Attend regular supervision meetings
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.
The post holders will manage a caseload of clients with mental health conditions including dementia, acting as lead professional, providing nursing assessments and interventions on an individual and group basis. The role involves providing supervision for junior staff / students. The service operates a 7-day shift pattern between 8.00am and 9.00 pm.
The Memory Service forms an integral part of the Community Mental Health Team, providing a range of interventions for people living with mental health conditions. The team works across Liverpool and the post holder will be expected to deliver interventions for people in a variety of settings. The team operates a system of regular supervision and there is also peer supervision available within the team.
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jun 2026