Care Practitioner

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 nurse to work within our district nursing teams, covering an 8am-8pm, 7 days a week model as part of our integrated community care plan for Liverpool. You will provide evidence-based care in patients’ homes, demonstrate empathy, strong communication, and a willingness to learn and develop professional competencies.

The role offers continued mentorship and full support to enhance skills, with opportunities to work collaboratively with other

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in district nursing or community care is desirable.
• Good understanding of clinical governance and audit processes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical care to a defined patient population within district nursing.
• Collaborate with team to meet patient needs and follow policies.
• Plan, implement and evaluate care plans and document thoroughly.

Skills

Clinical governance

Audit awareness

Communication skills

Teamwork

IT literacy

Travel flexibility

Education

Registered Nurse (NMC)

Tools

Electronic Health Records

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.

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Job overview

We are looking for a Band 5 nurse to work within our district nursing teams to cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model. The service is undergoing significant developments as part of our plan to deliver integrated community care for patients on a neighbourhood footprint across Liverpool

Working to the Mersey Care values, you will have excellent empathy, communication skills and a person centred approach. You will be keen to continue learning and develop the competencies needed to give evidence based care to your patients in their own home. Clinical decision making skills and a problem solving approach is an essential component of this role. You will be a good team player who can also work autonomously on your own, escalating and reporting back appropriately.

The service operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to cover our 8am-8pm 7 days a week model.

You will also have the opportunity to be mentored and full support will be given to develop and enhance your skills.

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.
• 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

Skills

Essential criteria

• Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
• Understanding of audit process
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• Conflict Resolution
• IT Literate
• Work as a member of a team
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of local and national quality initiatives

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field.

Desirable criteria

• Clinical supervision experience

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Practitioner

Desirable criteria

• Assessor/teaching qualification or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.