Treatment Room Practitioner

Main area: Community Services

Grade: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Option to increase hours with bank shifts and 7 day working)

Job ref: 350-CC6860994-A

Site: Knowsley Locality

Town: Huyton

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59

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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and outgoing individual to join our team of Nurse Practitioners working in Knowsley Place Community Treatment Rooms. The successful applicant will be required to work autonomously to provide high standards of patient care, provision of evidence-based treatments including wound care assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and discharge of clients attending clinic. Offer excellent clinical supervision and encourage a culture of learning and reflective practice.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder is responsible for the delivery of clinical care to a defined population. Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role.
• They will work effectively and collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.
• Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
• Identify, and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over the counter medication.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Promote and deliver evidenced based care.
• Assist senior practitioners as required.
• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating.
• Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues viewpoints to others.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
• Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
• Utilising a structured framework (e.g. root cause analysis) participate in the management, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near miss events.
• Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.
• Act as a positive role model takes responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision.
• Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to reach their potential, learn from each other and from external good practice.
• Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of care to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.
• Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
• Work with other professionals to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill mix is available to meet the needs of patients.
• Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.
• Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to own practice.
• Keep up to date with new developments locally and nationally identifying those that will enhance the teams work.
• Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
• Act as a mentor to students assessing competency against set standards as requested if appropriately qualified.
• Accept and delegate tasks appropriately.
• The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Registered Practitioner, Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.
• Skills: Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies. Understanding of audit process. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills. IT literate. Work as member of a team. Ability to travel to work across boundaries. Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.
• Knowledge/Experience: Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field. Nursing Qualification. Clinical supervision experience. Non Medical prescriber. Wound care experience.
• Values: Accountability, Support, High professional standards, Responsive to service users, Engaging leadership style, Transparency and honesty, Discreet, Change oriented.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. 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.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

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 £16 per year and maintain registration.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.

You’ll be made to feel at home, joining an 11,000 strong Mersey Care family comprising doctors and nurses, as well as countless other roles from dieticians to dentists, from data analysts to physiotherapists.

You’ll find a full list of our roles in our A-Z list. You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.