Job summary
Come and join us for a unique job opportunity at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre! We are working towards delivering a thoroughly modern mental health service that offers excellent standards of care and meaningful interventions.

This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is interested in developing as a practitioner and person. Development opportunities will be available and regular clinical supervision and support will be provided.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a community based post which will required the post holder to travel regularly between multiple sites in order to perform their duties.

Main duties of the job

• Assessment of Mental Health Needs: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Job responsibilities
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.

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.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Appropriate professional qualification by RMN, AHP Social Worker
• Desirable: Degree; 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; Care Planning and evaluation; Quality and clinical audit; 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

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.

Details
Band: Band 5
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Closing date: 21 October 2026
Reference number: 350-MHC8318320
Contact: Wayne Lockley, wayne.lockley@merseycare.nhs.uk, 01513308554

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.