This post is only open to internal applicants.
Caseload Holder
Band 6
Main area Treatment Rooms Grade Band 6 Contract Secondment: 12 months (Maternity Leave cover) Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 350-CC7274468
Site Treatment Rooms - various clinic sites Town Liverpool Salary £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 17/07/2025
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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
An opportunity has arisen within the Treatment Room Service in Liverpool for a 12 month fixed term, part time (22.5 hours ) Band 6 Caseload Holder, to cover maternity leave. The successful candidate will be supported into this role in managing a caseload of complex patients in a designated clinic area but also working across various clinic sites within the service as required.
Main duties of the job
The candidates will be expected to have existing clinical competencies and knowledge base of Tissue Viability, Leg Ulcer Management and Pressure Ulcer management, as there is a requirement to be able to carry out senior reviews on highly complex patients. A V150 or V300 prescribing qualification is desirable but not essential for this role.
The primary function of the role is to provide high quality care to a defined caseload of patients and undertake holistic assessments.
Responsibility for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels. To clinically lead, direct mentor and support the team. To support the Team Leader's and operational manager's in the development of the service and effective caseload management to meet the needs of the population
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
See job description for more detailed responsibilities.
For the Treatment Room Service there is a requirement to move and travel between clinic sites within Mersey care NHS Foundation Trust. The service currently operates 7 days a week, with some late clinics until 8pm and bank holidays. There is a requirement within this post to be able to travel.
For information regarding this position please contact Louise Hornby or Niall Kearney, Treatment Room Teams Leader's for Liverpool 0151 295 9426.
Person specification
Knowledge/Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience.
* Experience of successful multiagency working.
* Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice or equivalent.
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses.
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
* Understanding of partnership working.
* Understanding of the principles of care management.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues.
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* IT literate.
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
* Management and clinical leadership experience
Skills
* Complex Wound care.
* Pressure Ulcer Management.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Louise Hornby Job title Team Leader Email address louise.hornby@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 0151 295 9426 Additional information
Niall Kearney, Team Leader - 0151 295 9426
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