# Community Mental Health Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse/18623ebb-8ccb-4e7c-b8e5-d58bcaa3e73f - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse/18623ebb-8ccb-4e7c-b8e5-d58bcaa3e73f.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Prescot - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** 1 year (1 year secondment or fixed-term post covering secondment of existing post holder.) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 Monday to Friday) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-18T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-04T07:01:33.680Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Mersey_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Working_age_Adults_Community_Mental_Health_Services/Working_age_Adults_Community_Mental_Health_Services-v8013949 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8013949?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Come and join us at The Norris Green Mental health hub. We are currently recruiting a band 6 nurse on a 1 year fixed term position to work within our community mental health teams. The Norris Green Hub serves a population of over 200,00 people across five community teams and is the largest CMHT hub in Merseycare. We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We are a modern workforce offering flexible working and making the most of data analytics and technology in the delivery of care. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community. We will guarantee your career development through a variety training packages and learning opportunities. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team comprising over 40 nurses and allied professionals with a wealth of experience here at Norris Green. ### Main duties of the job The Norris Green Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The team is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community. If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have experience working in this field since qualifying. The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medication, administration of depots, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community. As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will : Provide cover to the existing post holder who has been seconded elsewhere for 12 months Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload Act as named professional/care coordinator and  coordinate care between services Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities Provide advice and support for service users and carers Participate in delivery of group interventions Supervision of Junior colleagues in the team Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT Attend regular supervision and team meetings Participate in training opportunities Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change Be part of a duty rota Monitor medication and administer depot medication ## Job Details Come and join us at The Norris Green Mental health hub. We are currently recruiting a band 6 nurse on a 1 year fixed term position to work within our community mental health teams. The Norris Green Hub serves a population of over 200,00 people across five community teams and is the largest CMHT hub in Merseycare. We pride ourselves on caring for staff and their well-being. We are a modern workforce offering flexible working and making the most of data analytics and technology in the delivery of care. We strive for excellence and support the Community Transformation model that supports our service users to access different speciality services across community. We will guarantee your career development through a variety training packages and learning opportunities. We have an excellent multidisciplinary team comprising over 40 nurses and allied professionals with a wealth of experience here at Norris Green. ## Job Description The Norris Green Community Mental Health Team supports individuals who have severe and enduring mental health difficulties. The team is a busy and skilled multi-disciplinary group which actively promotes close partnership working within the wider community. If you feel you possess the values of Mersey Care NHS Trust we would welcome an application from you. Applicants should hold the professional qualification of a Registered Mental Health Nurse and have experience working in this field since qualifying. The role will include providing high quality evidenced based care, formulating risk management plans, supervising risk assessments, monitoring medication, administration of depots, providing expertise and advice, care co-ordination and supervising junior staff. In addition, we require a strong commitment to working with service users with complex needs, in order to assist them plan and take steps towards their recovery as well as promoting signposting to additional services such as Psychology, Life rooms and wider resources available in the community. As well as managing a caseload you would be expected to be a part of the duty rota responding to service users in crisis during the teams working hours. ## Responsibilities The post holder will be based within the Community Mental Health Team and will : Provide cover to the existing post holder who has been seconded elsewhere for 12 months Provide assessments and develop treatment plans for service users on caseload Act as named professional/care coordinator and coordinate care between services Hold a caseload of people with severe and enduring mental health problems Participate in team meetings, MDT meetings and training opportunities Provide advice and support for service users and carers Participate in delivery of group interventions Supervision of Junior colleagues in the team Liaise with colleagues and coordinate care for service users on caseload Support and monitor the service user whilst commencing medication Work collaboratively with other members of the MDT Attend regular supervision and team meetings Participate in training opportunities Support people with complex needs and provide advice and guidance as people’s needs change Be part of a duty rota Monitor medication and administer depot medication ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally. - Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services - Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit - Leadership Skills - Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines. - Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation. - Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation. - Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines. - Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff - Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs’ responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies - Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX - Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews - Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings. **Desirable** - Knowledge of right care right person ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum of 2 years post registration experience in mental health. - Evidence of leadership and management skills - Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads - Evidence of supervising staff. - Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers - Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance. - Experience in change management and policy formulation ### Qualifications **Essential** - Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker - Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice **Desirable** - Working towards master level education ## Documents - [oh risk id (pdf, 496.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10299802) - [employee benefits (pdf, 950.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2853) - [a great place to work (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1400) - [your recruitment journey (pdf, 291.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2941) - [our people promise and charter (pdf, 5.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2513) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 360.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10299801) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.