A new opportunity to join our Urgent Care Team as a Mental Health Registered Nurse - Community Discharge Matron to support the Transfer of Care Hub based in V7, covering Mon-Friday on a 6-month secondment/fixed term until the end of March 2025.
The post holder will work with multidisciplinary teams in identifying and delivering a wide variety of quality improvement methods that will support identification and interventions required to reduce wasted time for patients in their journey of care and treatments through the hospital system, back out into community settings.
The role will work closely with staff in clinical areas using appropriate tools, systems, and processes that support the trust's capacity and flow 'home first' programme. The role for wards and clinical areas will have an emphasis on quality improvement methodology to assure delivery of excellence in patient and carer care provision, ensuring that the patient receiving acute care and/or their carers are at the centre of the system, involved at all stages of the journey and decision-making from admission to discharge.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will provide leadership in support of creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence, promoting high expectations and ambitions, and achieving high standards by providing advice, guidance, support, and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety.
To provide effective and visible clinical leadership that will support wards and clinical teams on their quality improvement plans with a specific focus on patient flow leading to safe, timely, and effective discharges.
Initiate and develop the implementation of data collection and subsequent improvements to measure and enhance quality outcomes related to SAFER care bundles and home first methodology for patients and their carers. Work in partnership with the wider system to develop discharge processes and escalate any challenges/issues appropriately.
Identify areas for improvement and make recommendations utilizing improvement methodology that will drive service improvement. Provide learning opportunities for staff on safe, timely discharge for wards and clinical areas both formally and informally.
The successful candidate will support the development of pathways out of LUHFT ensuring appropriate use of all community resources, including Intermediate Care beds.
About Us
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, as well as 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 costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job Responsibilities
The role will provide leadership in support of creating a culture of continuous improvement and excellence, promoting high expectations and ambitions by providing advice, guidance, support, and coaching to ward staff and their teams on quality and safety. Play a key role in planning, priority setting, and decision-making to ensure that patient flow and the SAFER care bundle and audit programme are implemented across the wards and clinical areas.
Please see attached Job description for Main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Experience of patient flow schemes
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
* Current senior nursing 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
Desirable
* Experience of risk management
* Experience of change management and support staff with transformation care initiatives
* Experience of supporting colleagues through cultural change programmes
Values
Essential
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
Skills
Essential
* 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
Desirable
* Training staff or making presentations to all grades of staff
* Skilled in developing and implementing action plans
* Skilled in systems administration
Employer Details
Employer Name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Trust Headquarters V7
Kings Business Park, Prescot
Liverpool
L34 1PJ
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