Main area: District Nursing - Community Division
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (To cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model)
Job ref: 350-CC6888466-A
Site: Community Services Division - Aintree District Nursing Team
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
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 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
We are looking for a Band 5 nurse to work within our district nursing teams based in North Liverpool, to cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model. The service is undergoing significant developments as part of our plan to deliver integrated community care for patients on a neighbourhood footprint across Liverpool.
Working to the Mersey Care values, you will have excellent empathy, communication skills and a person-centred approach. You will be keen to continue learning and develop the competencies needed to give evidence-based care to your patients in their own home. Clinical decision-making skills and a problem-solving approach are essential components of this role. You will be a good team player who can also work autonomously, escalating and reporting back appropriately.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is responsible for the delivery of clinical care to a defined population. Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role. They will work effectively and collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership. Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating the establishment of systems and processes.
All applicants will be required to hold a full driving license for the role.
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. Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
2. Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
3. Identify and manage treatment plans for patients at risk.
4. Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
5. Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication.
6. Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
7. Promote and deliver evidence-based care.
8. Assist senior practitioners as required.
9. Utilise sensitive communication styles, ensuring patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
10. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication.
11. Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues' viewpoints to others.
12. Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
13. Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation.
14. Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
15. Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
16. Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
17. Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation.
18. Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
19. Evaluate the patients’ response to healthcare provision and the effectiveness of care.
20. Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
21. Participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near-miss events.
22. Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team.
23. Act as a positive role model taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance.
24. Promote the workplace as a learning environment.
25. Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of care to patients.
26. Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care.
27. Work with other professionals to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill mix is available.
28. Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
29. Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments relevant to own practice.
30. Keep up to date with new developments locally and nationally.
31. Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
32. Act as a mentor to students assessing competency against set standards.
33. Accept and delegate tasks appropriately.
34. Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues as necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Practitioner
* Mentor/teaching qualification or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge/Experience
* Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field.
* Clinical supervision experience
Skills
* Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
* Understanding of audit process
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
* IT Literate
* Work as a member of a team
* Access to a full driving license and ability to travel across boundaries
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
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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.
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.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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