Main area: Urgent Treatment Centre - Community Services
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (available hours/shift patterns can be discussed at interview)
Job ref: 350-CC6694814-A
Site: Longmoor House
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/12/2024 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
There is an exciting opportunity to join Longmoor House as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. The role requires a full advanced practice masters.
This post is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of urgent care services. The post's main base will be in Longmoor House. If you are highly motivated and have a passion for making a real difference and can rise to the challenge of becoming a leader of change, then we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is required to have experience in undertaking autonomous clinical examinations, forming a diagnosis and have the ability to treat patients with undifferentiated minor injuries and illnesses. They will also need to provide advice on health-related issues and signposting to appropriate community services.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
1. Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients accessing the service.
2. Prioritise workload and clinical interventions as appropriate.
3. Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
4. To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients.
5. Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate.
6. Take responsibility for the supervision/development of junior members of the team.
7. Identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret the results and act on any results requiring clinical intervention or management.
8. Identify and intervene proactively where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, staff or relatives and escalate these to the health and safety team/safeguarding team.
9. Share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others across Urgent Care as appropriate.
10. Contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes that facilitate patient flow, facilitating timely discharge and preventing hospital admission.
11. Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients including issues pertaining to child protection & vulnerable adults.
12. Must have completed the Independent Non-Medical Prescribing course and registration with the NMC or HCPC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy and maintain evidence and competence of this qualification.
13. Maintain up to date patient records in accordance with Trust policy and professional bodies standards.
14. Ability to adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care.
15. Promote and adhere to the principles and practice of the Trust's clinical governance framework.
16. Contribute to the review and development of clinical patient pathways and the development of the service, ensuring our services are safe.
17. Adhere to trust infection and prevention control policies and procedures.
18. Lead on the review and implementation of appropriate NICE guidance.
19. Support junior staff with clinical/therapy competencies.
20. Be the key link for other teams within the service line.
21. Be the key link person for educating staff around a specific area of expertise.
22. Lead on clinical audits.
23. Act as a link for the service to discuss potential patient admissions through collaborative working.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registration with relevant clinical body
* Full master’s in advanced clinical practice (ACP)
* V300 Non-medical prescribing
Knowledge Experience
* Working autonomously in an advanced role
* Proven leadership skills
* Non-medical prescriber
* Research Audits
* Community experience working within a multidisciplinary led environment
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
* Change management
* Negotiation and conflict management skills
* IT literate
* Able to work across boundaries within primary and offering support to secondary care
* EMIS
* ICE
* S.A.F.E.R
* SIGMA
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