Job summary
- Main area
- Early Intervention in Psychosis - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7474372-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Baird House
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/10/2025
Employer heading
Team Leader
Band 7
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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
Please note this is a community based role which will requires the post holder to regularly travel between multiple sites.
We have a fantastic opportunity that has arisen in the Early Intervention in Psychosis Team - Liverpool based in Baird House.
The successful candidate will work as part of an experienced and supportive leadership team in Baird House. A Hub that also incorporates two other community based mental health teams. The successful candidate will be able to access support from both the Operational Manager and their band 7 colleagues.
EIT Liverpool is a well established team with a skilled multi-disciplinary group of staff including a Senior Advanced Practitioner and experienced medical leads.
Our staff within the team pride themselves on delivering exceptional mental health care.
The successful candidate will be expected to deliver high quality team leadership and adhere to the national guidance standards that acknowledges the specialism of this service. There will also be an opportunity to support Transformation and the newly defined Community Mental Health Framework and leading staff to embed new ways of working to support the community we serve.
The successful candidate will be supported in their role and encouraged to develop the role and their professional skills. We strongly encourage interested candidates to visit, call or spend some time with us finding out about the work and values of the team as part of the application.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical and managerial leadership within EIT across the entire Liverpool catchment area. To work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent approach to the care of Service Users.
To build effective relationships with other care providers and ensure that views of Service Users, Carers, relatives and friends are given appropriate recognition.
To influence and shape evidence based clinical practice and to take a lead role in the implementation and support change
To operate in a role that is primarily therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with Service User in a variety of care settings.
To adhere to the ethos, national targets and standards of EIT
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
For further information regarding this exciting role, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
- Possess good listening and negotiation skills
- Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff.
- Knowledge of developments in community care and of health legislation
Desirable criteria
- Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
- Computer literate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of leadership and management of clinical care within the community setting.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience working with adults / complex care in a variety of health care settings.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered mental Health Nurse or appropriate professional qualification
- Minimum of 3 years post registration experience within mental health services
- Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Professional attitude
- Flexibility
- Good interpersonal skills
- Leadership skills
- Ability to contribute to developing nursing excellence within the community team.
Other
Essential criteria
- The ability to travel across multiples sites in the course of performing dutes.
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
- Ray Clucas
- Job title
- Hub Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 250 6272
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