Senior Clinical Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Community Care Division, Urgent Care has a exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic nurse to provide leadership and oversight to our clinical teams, working in partnership with service users, carers and other key stakeholders to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients and at the same they will be talking to their families, carers and their communities. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients' holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.

This is a key role in the division and the successful post holder will provide strategic clinical leadership using the most up to date and evidence-based theory and practice and offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals.

The post holder will demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within In Patient Services.

The post holder will be required will also work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

The successful post holder's will evaluate existing nursing practice through audit and evaluation of expected practice standards. They will embrace a culture of continuous learning and service development utilising Patient Safety Incident Response Framework techniques and analysis of key safety indicators. They will highly value the experience of our service users, carers and workforce to inform and drive service improvement initiatives embracing a quality culture through strong clinical leadership. The post holder's will support the Head of Nursing with the implementation delivery and commitment to the service line patient experience strategy. They will be innovative in their thinking with a passion for clinical excellence both influencing and co producing strategies that address identified areas for improvement. They will support the Head of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing in shaping and developing relevant policy and procedure and will assist the ongoing review and
development of inpatient clinical pathways in keeping with National Standards and Evidenced based interventions for service users across the Division

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 work as senior clinical nurse in Community Care Division.

2. To lead/facilitate on discharging planning from in-patient areas.

3. To formulate, implement and evaluate nursing interventions which support the clinical pathway

for patients in the Community Care Division.

4. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and

engagement., Accountable to: Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience

Responsible to: Divisional Director

19/10/2022

5. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing nursing practice in the

Community Care Division.

6. To demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area of expertise.

7. To critically appraise, evaluate and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research

evidence within a specialist area of practice.

8. To liaise with other services as required.

9. Evaluate nursing practice through audit of service and practice standards, developing and

managing strategies that address any shortfalls.

10. Ensure the development and delivery of relevant training programmes, including the

development of co produced programmes, for both staff and patient, reflect service need and

development.

11. Ensure supervision and reflective practiced standards are adhered to and address shortfalls where

necessary.

12. Ensure the PDP process is robust, ensuring systems are in place to address to ensure nurses have

the skills and capabilities to deliver high standards of care.

13. To provide verbal or written reports as requested.

14. To identify areas for service development in your area of responsibility.

15. To ensure and support the ward based clinical leads in monitoring, auditing and developing clinical

practice in line with the business plan and service development requirements.

16. To adhere to Trust Policies reporting to the Community Care Division management team any

failures in adherence to Trust Policy.

17. To contribute to the development of Trust Policies and local Guidelines.

18. To maintain the high standards in clinical expertise that this role requires.

19. To maintain, monitor and present data relating to the role.

20. To be consistent and active in evaluating the effectiveness of the role.

21. Ensure the development and promotion nursing / clinical research.

22. Participate in clinical research as necessary whilst ensuring adherence to ethical practice.

23. To participate in service meetings.

24. To offer and participate in regular systematic supervision.

25. Establish priorities and organise workload to ensure effective use of time.

26. Ensure systematic records of treatment and progress are kept, and that written reports are

provided for relevant returns.

27. Produce full evaluation of service and its impact on an annual basis.

28. Support the Divisional Directors and deputies in delivering required objectives and developing the

Community Care Division nursing strategy including involvement in clinical governance at a senior

level; to participate in on-call Rota and the duties that this entails; Take on additional duties /

projects as required by the division