Specialist Nurse

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool

On-site

GBP 32,000 - 46,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Nurse for the Transcend service to support gender incongruence care within a Primary Care setting. The post involves working with an MDT, GPs, and partner agencies, across the locality, with travel required.

This role offers opportunities to contribute to a new model of care for an underserved group, with flexible working arrangements considered for all roles.

Qualifications

Registered nurse/midwife with first level registration.
Experience working with gender incongruence service users.
Ability to administer IM injections and interpret blood results.
Strong documentation and time management skills.
Willingness to travel across locality.

Responsibilities

Provide direct clinical nursing care to Transcend service users.
Obtain bloods for routine screening.
Deliver deep IM injections of GRNH analogues in line with clinical standards.
Interview, assess and monitor wellbeing of service users.
Support the delivery of treatment from colleagues.
Engage with partner agencies as appropriate.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of clinical issues in gender incongruence.
Maintain record keeping in line with Trust standards.
Be an active member of the MDT and participate in training.

Skills

Organised

Travel ability

Communication skills

IM injections

Blood result interpretation

Documentation

Assessment skills

Relationship building

Education

First level Registered Nurse/Midwife

Clinical mentoring (ENB 998/997)

Gender Identity Healthcare qualifications (RCP)

Tools

EMIS

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

Transcend is a newly commissioned service established to explore how Gender Incongruence can be best supported and treated within a Primary Care setting. We are seeking a Specialist Nurse to help deliver this care. The postholder will work closely with our MDT, local GPs, relevant partner agencies, and of course directly with service users.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of not only a new service, but a new model of care for a disadvantaged and underserved service user group. The role will involve travel across the locality, therefore being a car user is essential.

Main duties of the job

To provide direct clinical nursing care to the service users of Transcend. This will include both direct and indirect interventions to support individuals accessing the service. The ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a wider multidisciplinary team, is essential. The postholder will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients and supporting them throughout their journey with the service.

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

Principal Responsibilities

Provide direct clinical nursing care to Transcend service users
Obtain bloods for routine screening
Deliver deep Intramuscular injections of GRNH analogues in line with clinical standards and profiles
Interview, assess and monitor the wellbeing of service users under direct care of Transcend utilising biopsychosocial principals
Support the delivery of treatment from colleagues
Understand role of, engage and refer to partner agents as appropriate
Maintain up to date knowledge of clinical issues and developments in the treatment of Gender Incongruence
Maintain record keeping in line with professional and Trust standards
Be an active member of MDT
To deliver training
Caseload managment
Engage in regular supervision and PACE reviews
Undertake and participate in research and audit as relevant to role and service objectives
Be aware of and adhere to Trust policies and procedures which are applicable to the role
Complete risk assessments and ensure that risks are identified and reported as they arise
Undertake appropriate training and act as a clinical mentor within the service. Support students and other learners in achieving learning outcomes by providing a learning environment with opportunities for observation and training

Professional Responsibilities

Maintain professional registration and adhere at all times to the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct
Ensure accurate and contemporaneous record keeping with due regard to confidentiality
Deal with difficult situations in relation to Child Protection/ Vulnerable adults and act according to Trust policy and current legislation
Undertake Trust mandatory training as required, ensuring compliance

Generic Responsibilities for all staff:

Commit to the vision of supporting Mersey Care in becoming a leading organisation in the provision of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care, and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust.
Role model the values of the Trust Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support in all activities and interactions with employees, service users and other stakeholders
Challenge the stigma associated with mental health and learning difficulties.
Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.
Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.
Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.
Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.
Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.
Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.
Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.
Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.
Adhere to all organisational policies.
Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment
Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.
Attend a one day Just and Learning & Civility and Respect training work shop
Be an ambassador for Just & Learning and Civility & Respect following the training
Positively advocate the just and learning culture within your team
Be a confident supporter and implementer of the Trust CARES Values including Civility & Respect within your team.
Support their team/services to create a positive environment for Just and Learning Culture
Participate in Just and Learning Culture events.
Bring Just and Learning Culture updates/information to the attention of team members and other MCT colleagues they work with.
Support and encourage the sharing of concerns about the safety and quality of care with senior leaders with the aim of improving safety and quality.
Actively participate in creating an open culture within your team so that concerns and difficulties can be discussed safely and respectfully.
Speaking up in the event that they are exposed to incivility between colleagues in the workplace #iwillspeakup.
Listening and understanding others who have concerns and taking a collaborative approach to work towards a solution to improve civility and respect.

This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be reviewed in light of the changing needs of the Trust in consultation with the postholder.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

First level Registered Nurse/Midwife
Ability to be a clinical mentor (ENB 998/997) or equivalent post registration degree level module or willingness to undertake

Desirable criteria