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Community Mental Health Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Runcorn,

Community Mental Health Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Runcorn,
 
Number Of Vacancies: 1
 

Come and join us at LLAMS Halton Later Life & Memory Team. We are a well established contemporary older persons mental health service that offers excellent standards of care and meaningful interventions across four teams within the service. LLAMS comprises of assessment, memory, Community & Care home liaison and the successful applicant will work within the 'Memory' aspect of our service although will at times provide input in other areas. 

You will be part of a fast paced memory team offering delivery of care from the point of diagnosis, this will comprise of post diagnostic support, memory review and carer support for service users and their families in the Halton area. As a nurse practitioner you will be expected to autonomously facilitate clinics, reviews, carer reviews, medication reviews & plan and facilitate therapeutic group work. Clinical experience in this service will be advantageous.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a newly qualified nurse seeking a preceptorship opportunity to develop their skills learned in training and to move forward with an exciting career with lots of opportunities for the future.  The successful candidate will play an important role in the continuing development of the service and will have the opportunity to develop the role of the nurse practitioner within the team. 

Short Listing planned for 21st Oct 2022

Interviews planned for 27th Oct 2022

About Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.