Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is also commissioned for services that cover 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.
Key details
Location
Site: Liverpool Place
Address: Liverpool Place
Town: Liverpool
Postcode: L6 2EH
Major / Minor Region: Merseyside
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time)
Salary
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 7
Specialty
Main area: District Nursing
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed, competent and passionate team leader to join our District Nursing Teams within the Community Division for patients across LPB.
The District Nursing Service currently operates an 8am-8pm working model. There is an expectation for the candidates to work within these working hours, including a variety of shifts across 7 days a week to support the needs of the service.
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To operationally manage and lead a District Nursing Team whilst being accountable for the performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness of the team. A key outcome of the role is to support your team to understand and own their quality, recognise, and respond to patient safety concerns, whilst identifying, assessing, and managing risk. The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care when necessary, acting as an expert practitioner and a role model to the whole team whilst actively supporting integration.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder is responsible for the ongoing assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of care. The post holder will carry out all relevant forms of care and will take responsibility for caseload holders in their absence.
Professional/Ethical Practice:
1. Ensuring that the community nurses within the team practice within a legal and ethical framework that adheres to The Code and local Trust Policies and Procedures.
2. Being personally accountable for professional and ethical actions and ensuring compliance with The Code.
3. Maintaining confidentiality, while communicating patient information, in such a way that preserves the dignity and privacy of the patient and family/carers.
Patient Care Delivery/Communication:
1. Developing, maintaining, and identifying problems with effective locality communication networks with other health professionals, statutory and voluntary agencies.
2. To manage a caseload of patients with a broad range of complex and specialist needs, using evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions.
Care/Caseload Management:
1. Responsibility for the co-ordination in monitoring the care of patients with long term conditions, disease management and supporting clinical staff ensuring continuity and continuing care.
2. Using own expertise and experience to present recommendations for service development.
District Nurse Team Leader Role:
1. To promote the attainment and maintenance of optimum health of patients who have long term conditions and acute disease management through predictive and proactive case management of an identified caseload of patients.
2. To formulate care plans that address the expressed health, social and cultural needs of the patient as an individual through working in partnership with the patient, the GP, specialist nurses and other stakeholder providers.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* First level Registered Nurse
* First level qualification in District Nursing / specialist Practitioners qualification in District Nursing
* Nurse Prescriber V150/300
* Evidence of Post registration education in related areas
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of leadership & management qualities
* Experience at Band 6 level in community nursing setting
* Demonstrable contribution to practice developments in community care /chronic disease management/long term conditions/palliative, end of life care
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding
* Ability to exercise critical thinking skills
* Ability to implement programmes or work streams leading to service changes
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