Specialist Spinal Injuries Practitoner

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in England is recruiting a Spinal Acute Outreach Practitioner to link the Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre with patients and multi-professional teams, providing expert advice on spinal cord injury management.

You will develop and monitor the effectiveness of spinal cord injury services, lead on patient pathways, contribute to teaching and research, and support bed capacity planning across the system to ensure seamless care.

Job description

The purpose of the job is to provide information, advice, support, assessment, interventions, andfollow-up for patients with spinal cord injury.The post holder will be required to continually develop and monitor the effectiveness of the spinal cordinjury services provided by the Trust.The post holder will be required to liaise and communicate effectively across multi-disciplinary teamsto ensure seamless and effective care for patients with spinal cord injury., The Spinal Acute Outreach Practitioner will link the Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre(NWRSIC) with patients and Multi professional teams in the three Northwest Major Trauma Centres(MTC), Intermediate Care Services, Primary, and Secondary Care. They will provide expert adviceon spinal cord injury management, education, and research at every level within the organisation aswell as having a strategic overview of patient need and bed capacity in all parts of the system.To take a lead role in each individual patient pathway for those referred to the NWRSIC.To assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of programmes of speciality-basedteaching ensuring learning objectives are achieved for all staff of the NWRSIC, carers, family, andexternal agencies.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.