HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner

Merseycare; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care is seeking a HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner Band 8B for a 2-year secondment in Liverpool. This role focuses on strategic clinical leadership, reducing restrictive practices, and improving outcomes for service users with mental health conditions. Candidates must be registered professionals with advanced clinical skills and leadership experience, eager to make a difference in a diverse and enriching environment.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Support for professional development

Qualifications

• Professional Registration required.
• Masters or equivalent level in a relevant field.
• Extensive experience in clinical practice at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership in reducing restrictive practices.
• Support clinical quality improvement across Integrated Care Boards.
• Clinical and practice leadership for the HOPE(S) programme.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical effectiveness

Innovative practice delivery

Communication

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Professional Registration (e.g., Registered Nurse Mental Health)

Masters degree or doctoral level training

Tools

Data management software

Job description

Main area Nursing & Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Grade Band 8b Contract Secondment: 2 years (2 years) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 350-TWS7247132

Site Indigo Building Town Liverpool Salary £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59

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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

HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner Band 8B

Secondment – 2 years

We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled clinical practice leader to join us in the North West HOPE(S) team as a Specialist Practitioner.

Are you passionate about and committed to reducing restrictive practices? Are you looking for a role with lots of variety? Are you looking for experience of working in the wider health and social care system whilst using your clinical skills working with people in Long Term Segregation?

Due to new investment and extension of funding we have 2 x 2 year secondments available:

HOPE(S) Practitioners work directly with people who are referred to the programme and their teams, using the HOPE(S) model and clinical skills and experience to reduce restrictive practices, end or reduce time in segregation, to provide clinical input into discharge planning and to clinically support commissioners and commissioned teams and providers to avoid admission and escalation to secure services.

The HOPE(S) Clinical Model was developed by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust and the trust hosts this work in the North West,

Please note-the successful post holder will work in direct clinical care environments across North West England and occasionally support North West funded patients elsewhere

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

To provide strategic clinical leadership and innovation using the most up to date and evidence-based theory and practice with a specific focus on the application of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care to reduce long term segregation and innovative strategies to improve clinical practice and reduce restrictive practices with children and young people, adults with autism and/or a learning disability and those with mental ill-health across Integrated Care Boards (ICB’s) and Lead Provider Collaboratives in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

This secondment provides a rare opportunity to develop specialist clinical skills working into multiple health and social care providers and will provide with development opportunities which they can utilise on return to their own Trust

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

To support Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative in the delivery of clinical quality improvement and innovation in relation to reducing long term segregation and other forms of restrictive practice. To provide Clinical and Practice leadership for the HOPE(S) programme. To deliver key outcomes on this portfolio to the Programme Steering Group.
To offer expert clinical advice and chair meetings with organisations within Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative.To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals. To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within
In Patient Services across Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative. To work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse Mental Health
• Educated to or working towards Masters degree or equivalent level, Or Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent and professional registration with the HCPC
• Demonstrable experience in clinical practice at a senior level
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development at masters level or equivalent

Knowledge/Experience

• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
• The post holder would be expected to have extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice in a range of specialties, demonstrating leadership skills, change management expertise and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
• Experience of Consultancy on complex cases and service improvement
• Will have experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards setting via audit & governance frameworks
• Will also be able to demonstrate training and teaching expertise in applied settings
• Will be service user focused with a track record that includes examples of clinical practice that have required collaborative interdisciplinary work to improve adult services
• Will require an in-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post-registration development activity
• Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement
• Be able to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
• Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

• Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement
• Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship
• Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals at regional and national level as evidenced by presentations at conference and/or publications in peer reviewed journals
• Will possess excellent leadership and communication skills
• Will have the ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients

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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.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Siobhan Chadwick Job title Consultant Practitioner HOPE(S) North West Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0787 6457674 Additional information

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FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

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.