Advanced Clinical Practitioner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Liverpool, making a significant impact in urgent care services. This role requires a master’s in advanced clinical practice and non-medical prescribing skills, focusing on delivering high-quality patient care. You will lead clinical interventions, manage patient assessment, and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment to improve service delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience working autonomously in an advanced role.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and non-medical prescribing experience.
• Research and audit background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced clinical care and undertake autonomous examinations.
• Manage treatment plans and ensure patient safety.
• Supervise junior team members and contribute to clinical audits.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Clinical Assessment

Change Management

Education

Full master's in advanced clinical practice (ACP)

Registration with clinical body

V300 Non-medical prescribing

Mentor/teaching qualification

Job description

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 ethnically diverse, 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.

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity to join Longmoor House as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. The role requires a full advanced practice masters.

This post is an exciting opportunity, to shape the future of urgent care services. The posts main base will be in Longmoor House. If you are highly motivated and have a passion for making a real difference and can rise to the challenge of becoming a leader of change, then we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is required to have experience in undertaking autonomous clinical examinations, forming a diagnosis and have the ability to treat patients with undifferentiated minor injuries and illnesses. They will also need to provide advice on health-related issues and sign posting to appropriate community services.

The candidate must be flexible and have the ability to work across shift patterns, which are over 7 days a week and 365 days per year.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principal Responsibilities:
To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).

1. Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients accessing the service
2. Prioritise workload and clinical interventions as appropriate.
3. Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
4. To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients.
5. Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate.
6. Take responsibility for the supervision/development of junior members of the team.
7. Is able to identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret the results and act on any results requiring clinical intervention or management.
8. To identify and intervene proactively where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, staff or relatives and escalate these to the health and safety team/safeguarding team.
9. To share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others across Urgent Care as appropriate.
10. Contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes that facilitate patient flow, facilitating timely discharge and preventing hospital admission.
11. To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients including issues pertaining to child protection & vulnerable adults.
12. Must have completed the Independent Non-Medical Prescribing course and registration with the NMC or HCPC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy and maintain evidence and competence of this qualification. Adhere to CPD
requirements of the Trust in relation to maintaining evidence of on-going competence.
13. To maintain up to date patient records in accordance with Trust policy and professional bodies standards.
14. Ability to adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care.
15. Promote and adhere to the principles and practice of the Trusts clinical governance framework.
16. Contribute to the review and development of clinical patient pathways and the development of the service, ensuring our services are safe.
17. Adhere to trust infection and prevention control policies and procedures.
18. Lead on the review and implementation of appropriate NICE guidance.
19. Will support junior staff with clinical/therapy competencies.
20. Will be the key link for other teams within the service line.
21. Will be key link person for educating staff around a specific area of expertise.
22. Lead on clinical audits.
23. Act as a link for the service to discuss potential patient admissions through collaborative working.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registration with relevant clinical body
• Full master's in advanced clinical practice (ACP)
• V300Non-medical prescribing
• Mentor/teaching qualification

Knowledge Experience

Essential criteria

• Working autonomously in an advanced role
• Proven leadership skills
• Non-medical prescriber
• Research Audits

Desirable criteria

• Community experience working within a multidisciplinary led environment

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Change management
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• IT literate
• Able to work across boundaries within primary and offering support to secondary care

Desirable criteria

• EMIS
• ICE
• S.A.F.E.R
• SIGMA

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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 [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

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. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 163.1KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 144.4KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)