Family Nurse

An opportunity has arisen within the Liverpool Family Nurse Partnership team due to planned changes in working hours and progression to an internal role with increased leadership.

We are recruiting to 1 WTE (37.5hrs) and 0.8 WTE (30.0hrs) family nurse post. Successful candidates will need to attend external residential FNP training on 3rd- 5th November 2026 to support learning and competencies.

Family nurses deliver the FNP intensive, preventive home visiting programme to vulnerable hard to reach young women who are expecting their first baby. We work with parents aged 19 years and under, and care leavers up to 24 years old.

The post holder will develop high-level generalist and specialist skills to work within the clinical methods of the structured programme. Family nurses work flexibly and creatively to achieve the expected programme outcomes.

Liverpool is a large City and travel across the area and on occasion to neighbouring boroughs is an expectation of this role.

Working with this client group may necessitate a degree of flexibility around working hours to meet the needs of clients. The service operates within core working hours of 8am-5.30pm, Mon-Fri. Service core hours may change in response to clients.

The team is based at Yew Tree Centre, L14 4ED. The post offers hybrid working opportunities; with a requirement to visit base frequently to receive valuable peer support and identify core FNP visit materials alongside weekly team meetings and supervision.

Main duties of the job

To recruit and engage eligible and hard-to-reach pregnant young women to the FNP programme.

To use programme materials and methods in the clients' homes in order to achieve the following;improve the outcomes of pregnancy;improve children's health and development by enabling parents to provide more sensitive and competent care of them; andimprove parental life-course by helping parents plan future pregnancies,complete their education, and find work.

To work therapeutically with a range of family members to promote behaviour change and positive outcomes for children and families.

To take a lead professional role when required where children and young people with additional needs require an integrated package of support from more than one practitioner/service.

Through continuous monitoring and engagement in reflective supervision, to ensure that expertise in clinical methods are developed and maintained, that the service offered is of high quality and the programme is implemented with fidelity.

To work in collaboration with local statutory and mainstream services to ensure that families become confident in accessing a range of other universal health and support services and are ready to graduate from the programme when the child is two years old.

As an FN there is an expectation that you will provide leadership expertise within your locality and within the wider service and system and contribute to quality assurance and improvements.

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.