Mental Health Liaison Nurse
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool, L9 7ALView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
26 October 2026
7 days leftJob description
Aintree Core 24 offer comprehensive assessment of mental health to those who present to the Emergency Department in times of crisis or, those who are ...
To provide high quality, evidence based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
To function as named nurse/care coordinator to service users undertaking assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
To participate as an active member of the multi disciplinary team.
To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high risk needs.
To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based on information received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi disciplinary team.
To be qualified to act as a mentor for students
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 or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker
- Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice
Desirable: - Working towards master level education
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years 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.
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
- 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 ward / team area
- Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
- Risk assessment and management
- Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
- Autonomous practice
- Leadership and supervision
- Multidisciplinary working
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health legislation, CPA, safeguarding, equality and human rights, clinical governance and professional codes of conduct
- Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
- 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 bas e
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First seen
12 October 2026
Last checked
14 October 2026
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