Community Mental Health Nurse
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool, L22 3XRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
21 October 2026
1 day leftJob description
Come and join us for a unique job opportunity at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre! We are working towards delivering a thoroughly modern mental healt...
- Conduct comprehensive mental health assessments.
- Assess risks relating to self-harm, suicide, vulnerability, and safeguarding concerns.
- Gather information from patients, carers, GPs, and other professionals.
- Develop an understanding of a patient's social, psychological, and physical health needs.
2. Care Planning and Delivery - Develop person-centred care plans alongside service users.
- Implement and review treatment plans.
- Support recovery-focused approaches that promote independence and wellbeing.
- Monitor progress and update care plans as required.
3. Therapeutic Interventions - Provide emotional support and therapeutic engagement.
- Deliver brief psychological interventions within competency levels.
- Support medication management and monitor effectiveness and side effects.
- Encourage coping strategies and relapse prevention planning.
4. Risk Management - Identify and manage risks associated with mental illness.
- Develop crisis and safety plans.
- Escalate concerns appropriately and seek senior support when risks increase.
- Participate in Mental Health Act and safeguarding procedures where required.
5. Key worker - Act as a Keyworker
- Liaise with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, GPs, housing services, and voluntary organisations.
- Ensure continuity of care across services.
- See Job description
The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care
The team will work to assess and provide treatment to service users with complex needs. Supporting people in the south sefton population.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
The post holder will be based within a CMHT
The core roles include; face to face engagement within the community and clinic setting The role also involves signposting to appropriate partner agencies.
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.
Qualifications
Essential: - Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP Social Worker
Desirable: - Degree; - Evidence of post registration study; - Evidence of post registration study
Experience
Essential: - Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems; - A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
Desirable: - Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding Effective Care Co ordination
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Care Planning and evaluation
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Quality and clinical audit
- Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Health & Safety/Risk Management Mental Health Act
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision.
Desirable: - Appreciate the process of standard setting and audit.
Skills
Essential: - Able to communicate effectively.; - Possess good listening and negotiation skills; - Ability to work as a member of a team
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
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First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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