Main area: Urgent Community Care
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working across 7 days and extended hours, base will be within Acute settings)
Job ref: 350-CC6670503
Site: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Prescot
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/11/2024 23:59
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We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, 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.
Job overview
Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for a new experience in an exciting progressive service? If so, come and join us.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced Registered Nurse, AHP or Paramedic, who possesses an MSc in Advanced Practice to join our Community Care Division - Urgent Care team. The role will be to support admission avoidance through delivery of our Urgent Community Response.
The post holder is identified as a clinical expert and is required to have a high clinical profile ensuring the provision of effective and efficient care. While ideally, the post-holder would have completed their Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) training, this could be facilitated to completion. The post holder will provide advanced clinical skills for patients and will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research, and standards of care within the service, including development of policies and guidelines and contribute to service development to ensure patients have a seamless pathway. The post holder will be expected to practice autonomously, formulate clinical decisions, and treatment plans within local guidelines/policy to manage both acute and chronic illness.
We would welcome applications from practitioners with experience in acute medicine as well as the long-term health needs of our aging population.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will require excellent communication skills which should include communicating clearly, sensitively, and effectively with patients, families, and professionals. Be able to signpost patients to the most appropriate services and be enthusiastic to apply acquired knowledge and skills.
We are looking for someone with high energy levels, a positive ‘can do’ attitude that can work with colleagues to deliver safe, kind, and effective care.
The successful post holder will be required to:
* Work autonomously, carrying out in-depth clinical assessment of patients with complex multiple healthcare needs.
* Perform advanced skills in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge as appropriate.
* Use specialised theoretical and practical knowledge to solve problems and make appropriate decisions.
* Work collaboratively, maintaining effective communication with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met.
* Demonstrate advanced communication skills and provide psychological support when delivering diagnosis.
* Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
* Participate in the development of services and assist the implementation of change.
* Provide education and development opportunities for others.
* Develop own specialist clinical knowledge and participate in the development of others' clinical knowledge.
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
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within their recognised remit. Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will exercise judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care.
The ACPs will provide teams with advanced clinical leadership, having undergone training to meet all academic and core clinical requirements (4 pillars of advanced practice) relevant to the role.
The candidate must be flexible and have the ability to work across shift patterns, which are over 7 days a week and 365 days per year, and will be based within Acute settings.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
Qualifications:
* Registered Nurse/Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist
* Masters level or Professional qualification or equivalent experience
* Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
* Evidence of change management qualification or equivalent experience
* Experience of patient flow schemes
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of developing and maintaining compliance and/or performance management processes
* Experience of interpreting standards, identifying and gathering evidence and carrying out assessments
* Evidence of motivating staff to take part in successfully changing practice
* Evidence of staff management and leadership
* Competent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
* Experience of risk management
* Experience of change management and support staff with transformation care initiatives
* Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
Skills
* Expert knowledge of performance management processes
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills including clear report writing and presentation
* Ability to negotiate, influence, and liaise effectively with staff at all levels
* Excellent motivational skills
* Excellent organisational skills, especially in relation to data gathering and interpretation
* Well-developed interpersonal skills
* Skilled in training/presenting to large groups of staff
* Extensive analytical skills in relation to complex information and data
* Ability to interrogate, manipulate, and challenge complex data
* Ability to keep abreast of and interpret national policy development
* Working knowledge of clinical health care combined with an understanding of the associated terminology
* Expert knowledge of healthcare standards and risk management standards applied to the NHS and the means by which they are assessed
* Clear understanding of Risk Management principles
* Maintaining electronic and manual databases
* Training staff or making presentations to all grades of staff
* Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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