Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 19 November 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Senior Nurse to join our caring and compassionate team in a community mental health setting based in Kirkby.

We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community.

Main duties of the job
The Kirkby 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, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms 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.

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.
Details
Date posted: 06 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 350-MHC8391812
Job locations: Kirkby CMHT Northwood house, Brierey Hey Avenue, Liverpool, L33 0YE, United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will :

• Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload
• Act as named professional/care coordinator and coordinate care between services
• Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities
• Provide advice and support for service users and carers
• Participate in delivery of group interventions
• Supervision of Junior colleagues 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
• Attend regular supervision and team meetings
• Participate in training opportunities
• Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as peoples needs change
• Be part of a duty rota
• Monitor medication and administer depot medication

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Appropriate professional qualification (e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker)
• Evidence of postregistration CPD

Desirable

• Working towards master level education

Experience
Essential

• Minimum 2 years post-registration mental health experience
• Evidence of leadership and management skills
• Evidence of experience of managing cases and 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. RADAR
• 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

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 Staff's responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base

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

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Kirkby CMHT Northwood house, Brierey Hey Avenue, Liverpool, L33 0YE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Operational Manager Lesley Pattison, lesley.pattison@merseycare.nhs.uk, 01513306452

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