Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Sefton Place | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

A new and exciting development opportunity has arisen for Band 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners to be a part of a well-established Community Matron Service in Mersey Care NHS Trust. This is a training post, and we are welcoming applications fromNurses or AHPs who are either currently working towards their MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice via apprenticeship or CPD route, or who we can support to undertake their MSc in Advanced Practice. Upon successful completion of the MSc pathway the post will progress to band 8a.

You will be responsible for supporting ACPs, in managing a proactive caseload of patients in their own home and 24-hour care settings to optimise long-term condition management, provide urgent response to patients presenting with acute illness and exacerbations of their LTCs and provide expert clinical support and leadership to DN and integrated-care teams, to deliver place-based, person-centred care. You will promote shared decision making with individuals regarding their care plan and encourage proactive self-management of conditions with the aim of avoiding crisis resulting in unplanned admissions to hospital. You will work under the mentorship and supervision of established ACPs working within the Service, with opportunities to support your learning and development.

We are looking to recruit Trainee ACPs who are ready to take the next step in their clinical career. You must be able to demonstrate the motivation required to take on an ACP role.

The post holder will support the Advanced Clinical Practitioners to clinically assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients on the caseload. Although this is a training post, the post holder will be expected to undertake some autonomous clinical decision making regarding the treatment and care of patients on the caseload, with clinical support and mentorship. The post holder will work within local and nationally agreed frameworks, including the 4 Pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice. The trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner will support the established Advanced Clinical Practitioners to provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to locality teams including district nurses and integrated care teams through joint visits, formal and informal supervision and mentorship, teaching sessions and attendance at MDT meetings.

The post holder will be supported through study days to attend university to undertake their MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice. The post holder will be expected to be prepared to work across a 7-day service 8am-8pm., Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.
-Role model the values of the Trust: Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support- in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders
-Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
-Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.'
-Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
-Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
-Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.
-Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional
body.
-Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with
staff, service users and other stakeholders.
-Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.
-Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.
-Adhere to all organisational policies.
-Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment
-Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.

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.