Main area: Adult Physical Health Community
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time - 37.5 Hours Per Week over 7 days unit operates over 24 hours.)
Job ref: 350-CC6969896
Site: Longmoor House
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 12/02/2025
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
Longmoor House is looking for an enthusiastic Registered Nurse to join our dynamic team as Ward Manager. Green ward 1 is a 20 bedded Ward that provides care for patients requiring assessment, reablement and discharge planning. The ward works with a Multidisciplinary team approach to providing excellent patient care for patients who are medically optimised for discharge from Hospital to prepare them for home. The team also cares for patients referred directly from the community who do not require admission to the acute hospital but may need further investigations or reablement.
If you have excellent communication and leadership skills and would like a new challenge to develop within a community setting, this would be an ideal post. Full support and induction would be given to the successful candidate. The candidate will be expected to work flexible shifts over a 24 hour period over 7 days to provide leadership to the unit.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have responsibility for the delivery of the clinical service on the ward. The post holder will be required to provide team leadership and management to the team. The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high quality care to patients/clients.
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. Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team.
2. Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
3. Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
4. Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
5. Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
6. Ensure that teams work proactively to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
7. Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
8. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
9. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
10. Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in various forums and professional groups.
11. Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
12. Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
13. Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex clinical situations.
14. Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex clinical care.
15. Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
16. Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
17. Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
18. Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
19. Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
20. Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating outcomes to staff.
21. Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested.
22. Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
23. Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
24. Participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
25. Provide induction to the local working environment and policies for new team members and students.
26. Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
27. Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
28. Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs.
29. Ensure that all staff attend mandatory training.
30. Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.
31. Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
32. Participate in audits and research, as required.
33. Participate in individual and group supervision.
34. Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
35. Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
36. Initiate training and development of team members. Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery.
37. In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
38. Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
39. Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
40. Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidence based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
41. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
42. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
43. Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
44. Identify skills deficits within the team and address these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
45. * The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
46. * The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Skills
* Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care.
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
* Understanding how other agencies work.
* IT literate.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
* Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
* Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* Report writing skills.
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience.
* Experience of management and clinical leadership.
* Experience of successful multi-agency working.
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent qualification.
* Appropriate prescriber – if required within the role.
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
* Registration with relevant professional body.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
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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 £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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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