Advanced Respiratory Practitioner

To provide professional leadership to the team (in line with service philosophy), acting as a role model and demonstrating up to date knowledge of respiratory health issues and awareness of physical health needs, through the development of professional expertise and the maintenance of professional networks. 2. To promote the mental and physical well-being of Service Users by ensuring health promotion, psychological, rehabilitation and educational needs are addressed 3. To lead and coordinate the work of Care Teams, ensuring that their activities encompass all facets of Service Users care and are achieved in line with all Trust and local policies and procedures. 4. To actively seek the view of Service Users and Carers in the development and monitoring of services, ensuring high standards of care delivery. 5. To ensure that Service Users' care plans are developed to meet the assessed needs of the individual under the guidelines of Effective Care Coordination, including effective
care pathways for Service Users and Carers. 6. To be a point of contact for Service Users and families if they have any concerns about their care, to listen to their concerns and employ highly developed communication skills, to offer reassurance or negotiate solution.

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.