Care Practitioner for Care Homes (Bank) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

We wish to recruit nurses to work on the bank across Brushwood and Millvina care homes.

We are looking for applicants who have a clear understanding of developing the role of a nurse who can assess patients within a community.

We work predominantly but not exclusively with older people. Our focus is ensuring patients health needs, often arisen from multiple co-morbidities and frailty, are met with the appropriate level of care. We work alongside the MDT to gain the best patient outcomes and facilitate patients to their preferred place of care, avoiding delay where possible.

Candidates should demonstrate the ability to work in a team which delivers innovative, responsive services to meet both the needs of patients and the organisation.

We are committed to staff development and you will have a named supervisor, the support of experienced colleagues and the opportunity to attend courses and training including leadership development.

The post holder will autonomously complete health needs assessments and continuing health care needs assessment to ensure that the appropriate care is in place. The post holder will ensure excellent levels of customer service for all patients/relatives and staff and will demonstrate improvements in quality and patient experience.

Working hours are 08.00-20.00 and 20.00-08.00, in order to fill the shifts there are shorter shifts comprising of 07.30- 3pm, 1.30-20.00, 19.30- 00.00., To work in collaboration with operational partners across the health and social care system to develop, monitor and expedite patient management plans for patient with complex needs. To facilitate, enable and support interdisciplinary decision making in order to achieve optimal and safe patient flow and the utilisation of all available resources to support the patients. The post holder will provide focussed support to patients, carers and staff covering all aspects of the admission and discharge process for patients admitted.

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.