Specialist Forensic Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 May 2024 |
| Location: | Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6174849/350-SC6174849 |
Summary
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to be part of a new service development in the Cheshire and Merseyside Region?
The Specialist Community Forensic Team have recently been commissioned to work with key stakeholders and partner agencies to enhance community provision for people who are autistic or who have a learning disability.
The Specialist Community Forensic Team are looking for four, Band 6 nurses to complement the existing team. Applications from enthusiastic and confident applicants who show a commitment to the wellbeing of service users and to delivering a high quality service are welcome. Ultimately, the work of the team is focused on enhancing the safety, experience and wellbeing of service users in the community.
Applications are also welcome from newly, and recently, qualified Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nurses. Preceptorship programmes that start at band 5 and guide applicants through to band 6 are available, this would take a minimum of 12 months to complete.
The Specialist Community Forensic Team is a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational therapists, Social Work, Psychology and Psychiatry. You will be expected to work in all areas of Cheshire and Merseyside and to liaise with a number of partner agencies including Health, Social Care and the Criminal Justice agencies to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation and support.
The Specialist Forensic Nurse will provide consultation, specialist assessment and intervention to deliver effective, person-centred clinical services for autistic people and people with learning disabilities who have additional complex needs associated with offending or a risk of offending.
The working hours for this post will be rostered over the 7 day week, between the hours of 0800hrs and 2000hrs.
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.
To carry a clinical caseload for the SCFT with individuals with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism who present a risk of offending or have offended.
To receive regular clinical supervision to support professional development and enhance client experience and service delivery.
See Job description and Person Specification for further details.
This advert closes on Thursday 9 May 2024