Advanced Practitioner in Mental Health

Job Title: Advanced Clinician (Registered Nurse - Mental Health)
Location: Knowsley

We have an exciting opportunity within our Care Home Liaison Team in Knowsley. The Knowsley Care Home Liaison is an integrated team that supports the mental and physical health and wellbeing of care home residents, aiming to deliver an improved level of quality of care and patient safety for residents.

Our goal is to support residents, families, and carers in planning for future healthcare needs while reducing the number of avoidable, non-elective hospital attendances, admissions, and re-admissions. Opportunities for continuing professional development, such as Master's modules, are encouraged. Experience with dementia, older adults, and care homes would be desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilise expert mental health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and clinical guidance as appropriate, while responding to changes in the service user’s physical and mental health.
• Formulate, implement, and evaluate interventions with individuals and their carers where appropriate.
• Make and receive referrals as an advanced autonomous practitioner.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area of expertise.
• Critically appraise, evaluate, and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research evidence within a specialist area of practice.
• Refer service users to other members of the multi-disciplinary team or specialisms as their needs require.
• Use independent non-medical prescribing skills in the initiation and evaluation of treatment plans.
• Establish consistent and evidence-based side-effect medication monitoring, acting as necessary.
• Discharge from a specialist area of practice with an effective discharge plan of care in place.
• Liaise with other services as required.
• Refer for medical intervention as the service users’ needs require.
• Make changes within the clinical practices of the specialist team based on evidence, policy and/or the identified needs of service users.
• Ensure that clinical and non-clinical risk is identified.

About Mersey Care:
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. We 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, including 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 are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide while safely reducing costs.