Senior Nurse Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable healthcare organization in Runcorn is seeking a Senior Nurse Practitioner to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care within a multidisciplinary team. The role involves interpreting cognitive assessment results, managing patient care, and maintaining a clinical governance framework. Successful candidates will have experience in physical health care needs and demonstrate autonomy in decision making. This position provides opportunities for professional development and collaboration with various healthcare professionals. Flexible working requests will be considered.

Qualifications

• Experience with cognitive assessments and interpreting results.
• Sound clinical skills in physical health care needs.
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams and environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, evidence-based care to patients.
• Maintain clinical governance and quality objectives.
• Support and facilitate junior practitioners' skill development.

Skills

Autonomous decision making

Time management

Communication

Clinical supervision

Cognitive assessments

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner to work within our well established, forward thinking Later Life and Memory Service (LLAMS) Halton.

You should have a keen interest in working with this client group and be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously within a Multi-Disciplinary Team. You should be able to demonstrate an ability to work within both a hospital setting and the community.

The post-holder should have sound time management skills and the ability to prioritise their own caseload within a busy and fast-paced environment. The post-holder should demonstrate an ability to undertake cognitive assessments, particularly the ACE-111, and interpret the results of such assessments. You must be able to demonstrate a range of specialist nursing skills, particularly around physical health care needs.

The successful candidate will play a significant role in the continuing development of the service, and in particular will have the opportunity to further develop the role of the Senior Nurse Practitioner within the Halton Borough. You will help establish close working links with other professionals within LLAMS Halton and the wider organisation. Access to transport is essential.

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 Team, 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.

Participate in own PDR with team lead to establish objectives, reporting arrangements, supervision and ongoing development.

Demonstrates own role to new starters and students from a variety of different disciplines.

Participation in mandatory training events.

Work with groups to improve patient participation and involvement.

Provide high quality, evidence-based care, integrating the multi-agency approach in the delivery of services to meet patients’ needs.

About 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.

Clinical Responsibilities

Interpret results of a range of blood tests including full blood count, urea, electrolytes and troponin levels and initiate treatment.

Be proactive in following agreed national and local protocols and pathways to manage specific diseases e.g. diabetes framework, hypertension assessment tool, and frail/elderly needs such as an ambulatory injury/fall and placement on a falls pathway.

Adhere to Trust policy for reporting sickness/absence and with emphasis on managing risk and infection control.

Sustain an effective communication network by interacting with multi-agency professionals, clients’ relatives and carers, disabled and bereaved and facilitate multidisciplinary case conferences.

Undertake additional education and training to undertake patient management.

Work and reflect the principles laid down by the code of professional conduct and scope of practice of the NMC.

Participate in caseload reviews, clinical audit, pressure monitoring and critical incident analysis when required.

Requirements & Participation

Participation in mandatory training events.

Work with groups to improve patient participation and involvement.

Provide high quality, evidence-based care, integrating the multi-agency approach in the delivery of services to meet patients’ needs.

Sustain an effective communication network by interacting with multi-agency professionals, clients’ relatives and carers, disabled and bereaved and facilitate multidisciplinary case conferences.

Additional Information

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’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.

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 advert closes on Sunday 7 Dec 2025.