ICRAS Senior Nurse Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A health care provider in Sefton is seeking a qualified nurse to deliver clinical care and support a multi-disciplinary team. The role entails ensuring quality care delivery and facilitating the development of junior practitioners. Candidates should possess excellent decision-making and communication skills, as well as a commitment to patient care. Access to a vehicle is required, and the organization supports flexible working arrangements. This position promises impactful work within a leading health trust.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse qualification is essential.
• Must have access to a vehicle.
• Experience in clinical governance and quality care practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical care to a defined population and support patients.
• Ensure quality strategy is implemented in the care delivery area.
• Facilitate junior practitioners' development and participation.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Patient care

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

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.

Key responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About Mersey Care

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. This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025.