Senior Mental Health Practitioner
Location
St Helens, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/5/2025
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Description
We have 1 routine assessment practitioner position to offer in the St Helens Recovery Team.
This vacancy would be suitable for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports the Biopsychosocial assessments of patients to access mental health support
The core working hours of this role are Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm excluding bank holidays.
The successful applicant will work in the Secondary Mental Health setting, offering specialist Mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions.
This role allows the practitioner to provide specialist advice, support, and assessment to patients.
This will allow timelier access to services and ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time and will offer the practitioner the environment to work in an autonomous way.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure they can transition between services with the best support in place.
The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support them in their needs
The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals. This includes Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, Responsible clinician – as well as the management team.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Harrison Job title: Clinical team manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01744 415620
This vacancy would be suitable for an experienced registered mental health nurse to work in an exciting, innovative post that supports the Biopsychosocial assessments of patients to access mental health support
The core working hours of this role are Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm excluding bank holidays.
The successful applicant will work in the Secondary Mental Health setting, offering specialist Mental health assessment to those patients who have moderate to severe mental health conditions.
This role allows the practitioner to provide specialist advice, support, and assessment to patients.
This will allow timelier access to services and ensure that the patient gets the right treatment at the right time and will offer the practitioner the environment to work in an autonomous way.
The role aims to improve the experience for our patients with mental health needs to ensure they can transition between services with the best support in place.
The post holder will be an effective member of a multi-disciplinary team, effectively triaging and signposting patients into the right team or service to support them in their needs
The post holder will be supported in their role by a variety of other professionals. This includes Pharmacists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Leads, Responsible clinician – as well as the management team.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tracey Harrison Job title: Clinical team manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01744 415620
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