Senior Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for experienced paramedic or nurse candidates with strong clinical skills, experience and previous community work, who are patient and team focused. The successful candidates will demonstrate that they are willing to support innovation, and are committed to service improvement in an extremely interesting, and challenging environment. Your aim is to support patients to remain at home and receive the treatment they needs, recognising risk and the need for onward referral as appropriate., The services provide care for acutely unwell patients in their own home (inclusive of residential and nursing homes), aiming to avoid unplanned admissions to hospital supporting earlier discharges from hospital and in line with the National Guidance for 2 hr Urgent Community Response guidelines. The multi-skilled team of therapists, nurses, social care and health care assistants provide urgent assessments, care and treatment for people living in Wirral. People are assessed within two hours and personalised support is in place within two days (usually 24 hours). The team can also provide urgent assessments within two hours for patients who experience any of the following:

• Fall (in or outside of their home or place of residence)
• Reduced mobility
• Confusion / delirium
• Worsening of dementia
• Urgent catheter care
• Diabetes deterioration
• Urgent social crisis
• Palliative patient in crisis
• Urgent equipment requests
  
  We employ over 2000 staff acrossCheshire and Merseyside, including community and specialist nurses, therapists, health visitors, school nurses, IT and business intelligence specialists, HR advisors and safeguarding experts.
Our services acrossWirralinclude community nursing, sexual health, community cardiology, walk-in centres, speech and language, teletriage, community dental and end of life care. InCheshire Eastwe deliver the 0-19 Health and Wellbeing Service which includes health visiting, infant feeding and school nurses.InKnowsleywe deliver our 0-25 Health and Wellbeing Service, which includes Health Visiting, Infant Feeding, School Nursing and the Enhancing Families Programme. InSt Helensis our 0-19+ Health and Wellbeing Service for local children, young people and families across St Helens. Whether you're about to graduate or complete your training, thinking about returning to practice or you are looking for a change, come and talk to us about the jobs we have on offer. If you share our passion for delivering the best quality care for the people of Cheshire and Merseyside, then we look forward to welcoming you to Team WCHC.