Mental Health Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 January 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L91EP |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7601485/350-MHC7601485 |
Summary
The First Response Service has an exciting Band 5 to Band 6 Development opportunity within the North First Response Service based at Clock View Hospital.
This is will be a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate you will be supported to undertake triage and assessments for people who present in Mental health crisis.
You will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide support to junior team members. This role will require skills in triage and assessment both face to face and over the phone. Part of the role will require undertaking crisis screenings for individuals via NHS 111 Option 2.
Successful candidates will be supported to build on their confidence and competence as a crisis assessment nurse, following a biopsychosocial model of assessment. Postholders will be supported by clinical leads and senior nurses to expand their skills in assessment and triage, working with people with all ranges of mental health presentations.
The service supports those in the crisis stages of mental ill health and the postholder will undertake a holistic assessment of needs to ensure the best and safest outcomes for patients are met.
The service uses the latest technology to provide telephone support to service users, families, carers and other professionals and is continuously enhancing with new innovations and technological advances.
To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation alongside secondary care services and wider agencies.
To ensure that the service users risk assessments and plan of care are developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and collaboratively agreed.
To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing plans of care.
The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for quality improvement and an attitude which respects and values service users’ choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.
To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information which has an impact on the service user’s 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 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.
To provide an effective link between mental health services and primary care, acting in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields.
To develop effective working relationships with other professional outside of the Trust in order to enhance the delivery of care to service users.
To participate as a supervisor and supervisee in the Divisional performance management / supervision framework. Work towards and help others work towards goals and objectives as agreed in personal development plans.
To take responsibility for maintaining and developing own knowledge and sills within own area of work.
To attend, as appropriate, courses and conferences, and to feedback and share knowledge, gained from attendance.
To be professionally accountable for own actions as a registered practitioner.
To act, at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, ensuring that unqualified staff are adhering to policy and procedure.
To undertake mandatory training as identified by the Trust and ensure that all actions are in line with training.
To keep up to date with developments in professional practice and make recommendations for change to senior staff, as appropriate.
To take and active role in the reporting of adverse incidents as per Trust policy. Ensure that junior staff follow the policy and appropriately report all incidents.
To seek advice and further training, if appropriate, before carrying out any duty.
For newly qualified candidates: To actively participate in the preceptorship process, working towards fulfilling any action plans, as agreed with the supervisor, and seeking advice and support to enhance skills and develop expertise.
To engage in the developmental process, attending relevant meetings/supervision with clinical supervisor and line manager to review developmental needs and create appropriate action plans to support development.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Dec 2025