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Job summary

Main area
Primary Care - Mental Health Services
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
350-MHC7144936
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Step Forward Service Liverpool
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/05/2025 23:59
Interview date
27/05/2025

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Mental Health Lead

Band 7

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

This role will be based in  Liverpool. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our  Step Forward Team  as a  Mental Health Lead working across the Mental Health Care Division footprint. The posts will be based on a neighbourhood level, delivering a population based approach to care focusing on prevention and early intervention for mental health.

We are looking to recruit x 1 Permanent  Band 7 Mental Health Practitioner to join the Step Forward Team and be part of and lead the development of the service. Using senior level leadership and clinical skills you will input to provide seamless, integrated, responsive and holistic care throughout each service users individual journey.

The role will focus on the interface between Primary and Secondary care, adopting a collaborative care model to ensure that we provide access to rapid evidence-based clinical input and specialist clinical support when appropriate.

Main duties of the job

You will be working in primary care settings working with specific PCN's, Integrated Care Teams and with Community Mental Health Teams /other specialist teams. 

The post requires working autonomously and as part of a team. Resilience and adaptability in approach are expected as well as the ability to offer and receive support from colleagues within the team. You will be expected to spend time developing good working relationships with colleagues across  Primary and secondary care, VCSFE and local networks to facilitate collaborative integrated working.

This role requires senior clinical and operational management skills and experience.

Clinical oversight and leadership skills are necessary for the role.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities of the role.

 

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
  • Possess good listening and negotiation skills
  • Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team  Professional attitude.
  • Flexibility
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Leadership skills
Desirable criteria
  • Computer literate

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Proven experience of leadership and management of clinical care within the community setting.
  • Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff.
  • Knowledge of developments in community care and of health legislation
  • Ability to contribute to developing nursing excellence within the community team.
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of experience working with older people in a variety of health care settings.
  • Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered mental Health Nurse or appropriate professional qualification
  • Significant demonstrable post registration experience within mental health services
  • Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development

Values

Essential criteria
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Accountability
  • Respectfulness
  • Enthusiasm
  • Support
  • High professional standards
  • Responsive to service users
  • Engaging leadership style
  • Strong customer service belief
  • Transparency and honesty
  • Discreet
  • Change oriented

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rachel Smith
Job title
Step Forward Team Lead and Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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