Overview
Are you a registered nurse (adult) in need of a new challenge?
We are recruiting for District Nurses to join our District Nursing Teams, and we will be recruiting for vacancies across Liverpool Place. If you have ambition, commitment, and share our aim to deliver perfect care, wed love to hear from you. This is a fixed term contract for 9 months.
Responsibilities
* You will work collaboratively as part of a community health team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.
* You will provide competent and skilled nursing care and advice to patients in their own homes and other community settings.
* You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients, service users and their carers ensuring they are at the centre of care and treatment planning.
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. Were 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.
Working arrangements
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Division
Community Services Division
This clinical division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, NHS walk-In centres and our older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.
As well as the many community nursing services, this division delivers specialist dental health care, therapies, sexual health, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics services. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, in or closer to their home.
Our services enable people to remain as independent as possible and many are delivered 24 hours, seven days a week. Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients whilst talking to their families and carers. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients\ holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.
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