Community Mental Health Nurse

1. 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.
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.
  
  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., 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.