Community Discharge Matron

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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, + Work autonomously, carrying out in-depth clinical assessment of patients with complex multiple healthcare needs.
+ Perform advanced skills in assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge as appropriate.
+ Use specialised theoretical and practical knowledge to solve problems and make appropriate decisions.
+ Work collaboratively, maintaining effective communication, with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met.
+ Demonstrate advanced communication skills and provide psychological support when delivering diagnosis.
+ Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
+ Participate in the development of services and assists the implementation of change
+ Provide education and development opportunities for others.
+ Develop own specialist clinical knowledge and participate in the development of others clinical knowledge, 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 (ACP) will exercise judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care.
The ACPs will provide 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 candidate must be flexible and have the ability to work across shift patterns, which are over 7 days a week and 365 days per year, and will be based within Acute settings.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role.
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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.
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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 subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced Registered Nurse , AHP or Paramedic, who possess an MSc in Advanced Practice to Join our Community Care Division - Urgent Care team . The role will be to support admission avoidance through delivery of our Urgent Community Response.
The post holder is identified as a clinical expert and is required to have a high clinical profile ensuring the provision of effective and efficient care. Whilst ideally, the post-holder would have completed their Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) training, this could be facilitated to completion. The post holder will provide advanced clinical skills for patients and will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards of care within the service, including development of policies and guidelines and contribute to service development to ensure patients have a seamless pathway. The post holder will be expected to practice autonomously, formulate clinical decisions and treatment plans within local guidelines/policy to manage both acute and chronic illness.
We would welcome applications from practitioners with experience in acute medicine as well as the long-term health needs of our aging population., The post holder will require excellent communication skills which should include communicating clearly, sensitively and effectively with patients, families and professionals. Be able to signpost patients to the most appropriate services and be enthusiastic to apply acquired knowledge and skills.
We are looking for someone with high energy levels, a positive 'can do' attitude that can work with colleagues to deliver safe, kind and effective care.

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.