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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Irwell ward to work as a Nurse Practitioner. Irwell ward is a 17-bedded older adult ward, providing mental health and physical health support to both males and females with complex care needs.
This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate, you will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem-solving and inter-personal skills, as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and leadership support to team members.
The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for coaching leadership style, quality improvement, and an attitude that respects and values service users’ choice, working alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
This post is subject to an enhanced check with the adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
1. Work as a registered nurse practitioner on Irwell ward.
2. Work a variety of shift patterns including earlies, lates, long days, and night duties.
3. Promote and provide safe and good patient care to all service users and support their families.
4. Work within a team and autonomously when appropriate to ensure that service is delivered.
5. Work as part of a multidisciplinary team and liaise with all agencies to promote safe and up-to-date practice for service users.
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 patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
2. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
3. Ensure that clinical care is appropriately delegated to the relevant team member.
4. Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contracts and objectives.
5. Participate in audits and research, as required.
6. Participate in individual and group supervision.
7. In conjunction with the service management, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
8. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service management.
9. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
10. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
11. Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
* Appropriate professional qualification by RMN AHP Social Worker.
EXPERIENCE
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems.
* A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
VALUES
* Accountability.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Discreet.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
* Able to communicate effectively.
* Possess good listening and negotiation skills.
* Ability to work as a member of a team.
* Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base regarding: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Health & Safety/Risk Management, Mental Health Act.
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship, and supervision.
Application Information
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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.
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. 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.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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