Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disability and Autism
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-SC7175925
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team
- Town
- Eccles, Manchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Nurse Practitioner
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Senior Nurse Practitioner to join an established nursing team within the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (GMSST), which provides a service across Greater Manchester to service users with a learning disability and/or autism who present with risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or forensic risk.
The post will be as part of the Greater Manchester Specialist Support Team (SST) based in Eccles. The GM SST is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, and Support Workers. You will be expected to work in all areas of Greater Manchester and liaise with the local Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism services to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support, as well as discharge support for current inpatients.
We deliver a variety of nursing assessments and interventions to enable a shared understanding of an individual’s needs, combining and understanding of physical health, mental health and risk. We aim to reduce risk of unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate discharge (from acute and secure settings) at the earliest opportunity and reduce restrictive practice where possible. We also offer advice and consultation and training to external agencies.
Main duties of the job
To support the delivery of high quality specialist assessment and intervention in the development of effective clinical services to meet the complex needs of people with behaviour that challenges particularly those whose behaviour presents serious risks to the community.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, the senior nurse practitioner will be responsible for managing their own caseload of individuals at risk of hospital admission, placement breakdown or criminal justice contact.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To carry a clinical caseload for the SST with individuals who present behaviour that challenges or where there is a risk of offending.
2. Under direction undertake a thorough assessment of new referrals using a range of tools.
3. Under direction provide comprehensive risk assessment of offending and/or other complex behaviours.
4. To carry out initial assessments with service users who are referred to the SST.
5. To develop Risk Management Plans including strategies and recommendations.
6. Contribute to the development of a formulation of offending behaviour and/or risk.
7. To support the implementation of specialist therapeutic
interventions.
8. To evaluate the outcome of any interventions.
9. Develop detailed service specifications when planning discharges from hospital settings or when seeking alternative placements in community settings.
10. To disseminate the Positive Behavioural Support model in delivery of care.
11. To provide advice and support to staff teams to maintain consistency in the overall management and response to risky or challenging behaviour.
12. To undertake on occasions urgent or emergency assessments, including risk assessments.
13. To provide recommendations for a gate keeping assessment where appropriate.
14. To support and lead on the development of contingency plans for crisis and relapses.
15. To organise own workload and work schedule.
16. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior members of staff.
17. To act as supervisor, assessor and mentor for students, nurses and junior staff.
18. To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with provision of learning disability services in the community.
19. To be involved in the development of training / information resources for partner agencies in the area of Learning Disabilities and Mental Health difficulties.
20. To ensure Safeguarding requirements are upheld.
21. To organise and chair regular staff meetings and other forums as appropriate.
22. To ensure effective communication between Health Services, Criminal Justice Services, Social Services and the Third Sector, and the co-ordination of other services as appropriate.
23. To undertake duties as may be delegated by the Team Manager.
24. To utilise theory, evidenced based literature and research to support practice.
25. To contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audits whenever possible.
26. To work across a variety of services and contexts, including prisons, secure services and psychiatric services as well as service users own homes in the community.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st level Nurse Registration in either Learning Disability or Mental Health.
- Degree/Diploma (or experience or knowledge that is equivalent)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills
- Ability to work on own and to work to set and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work in a multiagency context
- Able to work autonomously and on own initiative, prioritise and manage own time effectively.
- Skills in the assessment of complex behaviours using a variety of methods.
- Skills in the designing of intervention and management plans, evaluation and monitoring.
- Driving Licence
- Able to recognise limits of own competency and when to seek supervision.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Minimum eighteen months post registration experience to include having worked with people with learning disabilities and or autism who have who offended. Experience of communicating with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
- Experience of working with individuals who have complex needs.
- Experience in the use of forensic risk assessment and management.
- A good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, DOLs, Safeguarding and the legal frameworks applicable to working with offenders in a community setting.
- An understanding of the Criminal Justice process.
- Experience of interagency working
- Experience of providing management and clinical supervision.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Terri Redmond
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01613834460
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