ICRAS Senior Nurse Practitioner

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

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced nurse to provide autonomous clinical care within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high standards of patient safety and care delivery. The post involves leading on governance and supporting junior staff and service improvements.

Applicants must hold current NMC registration, a first level nursing qualification, and evidence of degree-level study. The role may require flexible shifts and effective collaboration with social care and other

Qualifications

• Must have active NMC registration and nursing qualification.
• Proven ability to prioritise workload and manage patient care.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring of junior staff.
• Experience in delivering multidisciplinary care and patient safety initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Deliver autonomous clinical care within a multidisciplinary team.
• Maintain quality strategy and governance within the unit.
• Lead and support ward organisation for safe, dignified patient care.
• Provide supervision, development reviews and staff support.

Skills

Prioritisation

Clinical leadership

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

First level registered general nurse

Current NMC registration

Degree level study evidence

Tools

IT systems

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

ICRAS provides high quality, culturally sensitive, nursing and therapy treatment/interventions for people in their permanent or temporary place of residence (Hub rehab units). Promoting a co-ordinated approach to admission avoidance that facilitates a seamless service leading to improved health and social care outcomes.

Therefore reducing the incidence of re-admission through education seeking early intervention providing an evidence based approach to clinical practice to improved patient care.

ICRAS aims to prevent inappropriate and/or avoidable hospital admissions by providing short term, intensive, multidisciplinary and holistic assessment treatment of care, ensuring collaborative working with existing social care providers and other agencies.

Must have access to a vehicle

The ICRAS service operates for 24 hours a day over 7 days.

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.

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

Provide autonomous decision making as a practitioner adjunct to the shared decision making responsibility of a member of the multidisciplinary team.

Maintain the clinical governance framework to support the quality objectives of the unit, reflecting on care standards using clinical incident reviews, national benchmarking and taking responsibility in implementing the results of this practice.

Align role to deliver care according to national service frameworks and tackling and preventing health inequalities.

Support the multi-agency team on the ground with emphasis on a sound communication network.

Encourage and facilitate junior practitioners to participate in the delivery of various health care programmes and models of practice.

Facilitate the development of the skills and knowledge of the junior practitioners and health practitioner assistants through clinical supervision and perform their personal development reviews.

Ensure that the organisation of the ward over the shift period supports the efficient and effective delivery of care e.g. that the environment is clean, safe and supports privacy, dignity and confidentiality to patients.

Observe, assess and evaluate what is influencing the workload i.e. level of patient demand, supply of staff and what level of hands on care is required and plan for the following shift duration.

Contact bank service and arrange bank staff

Manage unproductive time and operational duties i.e. check work time cards of nursing staff within the team when required.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to prioritise workload proactively
• Committed to raising standards in clinical areas
• Capable of working on own initiative
• Able to involve and listen to others

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First level registered general nurse
• Current NMC registration
• Evidence of study at degree level

Desirable criteria

• Post Registration qualification
• Leadership Qualification
• Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience at senior nurse level
• Experience in relevant speciality
• Experience of on - going professional development

Desirable criteria

• Experience of leading and managing change

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of health service and initiatives
• Influencing skills
• Good IT skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate leadership and motivational skills

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous improvement - committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
• Accountability - taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care.
• Respect - how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way.
• Enthusiasm - demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it.
• Support - actively supporting others with compassion and courage.