Walk in Centre Nurse Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 Nurse Practitioner to work in Smithdown Childrens Walk in Centre. The Mersey Care Urgent Treatment Centres and Walk in Centres assess and treat patients with minor illness and injuries, including enhanced diagnostics. They are open 8am to 8pm 7 days per week.

You will work as an autonomous practitioner and be accountable and responsible for the health care management of the patients attending. Dependent on experience, successful candidates will be offered the full Band 6 Nurse Practitioner position; alternatively, a candidate who demonstrates potential for this role but requires additional training or experience may be offered a band 5-6 development post.

You will have the ability to assess, diagnose and treat or determine the most appropriate pathway for the patient. You will do this by:

• Providing high quality, evidence based care to all patients attending the Walk-in Centre.
• Working autonomously and providing holistic assessment, interpretation of results, treatment, advice and health promotion resulting in discharge or referral of patients as appropriate.
• Receiving patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions in an unpredictable environment and delivering care accordingly.
• Demonstrating commitment to developing knowledge of a wide range of minor illness and minor ailments; by achieving competencies in all areas of Walk-in Centre work to effectively assess, treat, discharge and refer appropriately to health and social care professionals.

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.

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.

Assess, diagnose and treat minor illness and/or ailment or determine the most appropriate pathway for the patient. Responsibility for managing service provision in the absence of the Senior Nurse Practitioner. Commitment to the Personal Performance Planning process and Clinical Supervision. Working flexibly to support all Urgent Treatment Centres & Walk-in Centres to ensure capacity meets service demand. The post holder has an obligation to work across all Walk-in Centre services.