Job summary
- Main area
- District Nursing - Community Practitioner - District Nurses Southport
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working hours between 8am - 6pm including bank holidays and weekend working / part time hours hours also available)
- Job ref
- 350-COM4290817
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southport and Formby Locality
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £25,655 - £31,534 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/07/2022 23:59
Employer heading
Community Practitioner
Band 5
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Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of clinical care to a defined population. Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role.
They will work effectively and collaboratively within the district nursing team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Shortlisting will take place 5th July 2022.
Interviews will take place 11th July 2022.
Main duties of the job
To assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes and treatment plans to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist patients in complex or emergency situations
Promote and deliver evidenced based care
Assist senior practitioners as required
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles - ensure patients are fully informed - recognise alternative methods of communication to overcome differing levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways on communication
Assess effectiveness of care through benchmarking, peer review and formal evaluation
Participate in maintenance of governance systems and processes across the organisation
Provide accurate contemporaneous patient records
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct
Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and effectiveness of care
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 11 million people.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see AFC job description
To assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes and treatment plans to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist patients in complex or emergency situations
Promote and deliver evidenced based care
Assist senior practitioners as required
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles - ensure patients are fully informed - recognise alternative methods of communication to overcome differing levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways on communication
Assess effectiveness of care through benchmarking, peer review and formal evaluation
Participate in maintenance of governance systems and processes across the organisation
Provide accurate contemporaneous patient records
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct
Evaluate the patients response to health care provision and effectiveness of care
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical supervision experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies
- Understanding of audit process.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution skills.
- IT literate
- Work as member of a team
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Szczesniak
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- nicola.szczesniak@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 01704 387240
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