A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Are you a skilled and experienced ACP/ANP looking for an exciting new challenge? Marshalls Cross Medical Centre is a forward-thinking, innovative practice committed to delivering the highest standards of patient care. We are currently seeking a dedicated professional to join our dynamic team and help us grow and improve our services.
At Marshalls Cross Medical Centre, you'll be part of a supportive and high-performing Partnership, working alongside an experienced clinical and administrative team. You’ll have the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary environment, collaborating with GPs, Nurses, Patient Care Advisors, Pharmacists, District Nurses, Community Matrons, and Social Services to provide exceptional care for our 7,000 patients, including residents of three care homes.
We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of continuous learning and development, ensuring all team members have opportunities to advance their skills and career.
• Conduct clinical assessments, take patient histories, diagnose, and provide treatment plans.
• Perform and interpret both invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests.
• Prescribe safe and effective medication within the legislative framework.
• Deliver expert care and decision-making to meet patients' needs.
• Develop and lead specialist primary care services for long-term conditions like diabetes, asthma, and heart disease.
• Collaborate with the general practice team to achieve high-quality patient care and service delivery targets.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
KEY DUTIES
CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Provide advanced levels of clinical practice, knowledge, and skills in General Practice.
• Undertake history and physical examination to accurately assess the patient’s clinical condition.
• Request, interpret and act upon relevant diagnostic tests and procedures.
• Interpret, convey, and act upon complex and conflicting information to MDT members/patients/relatives including in possible stressful situations, which may be delicate or offensive in nature (i.e. breaking bad news).
• Act as a clinical expert providing continuous support to the nursing staff and other MDT members within and outside designated area of work.
• Undertake advanced (invasive and non-invasive) procedures pertaining to patient need, in accordance with appropriate training and clinical supervision.
• Prescribe medication in accordance with current legislation and Trust policy.
• Maintain comprehensive, contemporaneous, and accurate clinical and documentation, utilising information technology where available to facilitate caseload management.
• Effectively manage acute life-threatening conditions in accordance with current ALS guidelines (as appropriate at area of work/need).
• Act as a role model through demonstration of high standards of practice, providing a clinical environment that motivates and encourages effective working partnerships.
• Participate in multidisciplinary, case conferences, clinical and audit meetings.
• Gain informed consent from patients for procedures undertaken by self or on behalf of others, both written and verbal, according to Trust policy.
• Provide evidence-based specialist knowledge and advice to patients, families/carers throughout the patient’s journey to meet their physical, emotional, and psychological needs.
• Provide clinical expertise in the management of patients utilising specialist theoretical and clinical skills.
• Issue Fit Notes and Prescriptions.
• Verification expected deaths as per Trust policy.
• Facilitate and support general practice doctors/Matron/Trainees to develop effective working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team to enhance the care and management of patients.
• Act as an autonomous practitioner exercising judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care.
• To support junior medical staff, sharing clinical workload and allowing junior doctors to achieve training and development requirements.
• Act autonomously, referring to appropriate specialists/care agencies.
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Ensure that the patient experience remains the focal point for service improvement within the Directorate.
• Provide support for nursing staff in relation to clinical support to complaints, PSiRF investigations.
• To contribute effectively to service developments both within the Directorate and at strategic level.
• Attend General Practice meetings as required.
• To act as a role model by demonstrating excellent communication and listening skills with patients, relatives, and staff.
• Promote effective team working within the team along with nursing and medical staff in the service.
• Network locally, regionally, and nationally to share and exchange ideas and principles.
• Provide an effective leadership role in contributing to own departmental issue pertaining to clinical governance agendas and shared governance within the Trust e.g., maintaining standards, risk management, clinical audit and research, standard setting, benchmarking, evidence-based practice, etc.
• Develop clinic skills as required and assist where necessary.
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Oct 2024
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