Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and conscientious individual to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. We are looking for a highly motivated and resilient candidate, to support our community palliative care team, based across St Helens and Knowsley geographical area.

The service is current delivered between the hours of 9am-5pm 7 days per week but will be increasing to provide cover 8am-8pm 7 days per week in the coming months in line with the Ambitions Framework.

The post holder must show commitment in supporting and in the development of others to ensure a consistent, quality driven delivery of service, mentorship, and clinical supervision. You will also ensure the delivery of the trust strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within their recognised remit. Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks the Advanced Clinical practitioner, will exercise independent judgment to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care. The Advanced Clinical practitioner will provide the teams with advanced clinical leadership, having undergone training to meet all academic and core clinical requirements (4 pillars of advanced practice) relevant to the role.

The Advanced Clinical practitioner reporting lines will be via the Mid Mersey Leadership Structure. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams and wider partners.
The Advance Clinical Practitioner will work in line with the Trust Palliative and End of Life care Strategy and work in collaboration with colleagues across the Division and the wider trust supporting the Strategic Framework.

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.

To support in the leadership of Specialist Nursing Teams whilst being accountable for the performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness of the team. A key outcome of the role is to support your team to understand and own their quality, recognise, and respond to patient safety concerns, whilst identifying, assessing, and managing risk. The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care when necessary, acting as an expert practitioner
Ensuring that the specialist nurses within the team practice within a legal and ethical framework that adheres to The Code and local Trust Policies and Procedures.