Advanced Practitioner - Prescot, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Prescot, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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You will be responsible for supporting Community Matrons in the delivery of proactive caseload management for patients in their own homes and Enhanced Health in Care homes along with reactive care for acute episodes of illness for patients on the community matron caseload in their own homes, and all patients in CQC Registered care homes and Local Authority Hubs.

The post holder will provide expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions, undertaking treatments as required.

In addition, the post holder will use their expertise to be a source of training and mentorship to those within the immediate team/area and as necessary, more widely.

Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.


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 are 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.


  • Provide care, advice and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.
  • Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.
  • Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
  • Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
  • Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
  • Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
  • Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.
  • Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
  • Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
  • Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
  • Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour
  • Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
  • Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.
  • Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
  • Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to others when managing complex and highly complex situations.
  • Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.
  • Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
  • Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
  • Undertake reactive and proactive care for patients in their own homes and 24-hour care settings within the community, where appropriate
  • Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.
  • Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
  • Direct and support the management of complex and highly complex, continuing care packages.
  • Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions, proactive and reactive care in 24-hour care establishments and end of life/palliative care.
  • Set objectives, by which performance will be monitored.
  • Work with the Service Lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to others.
  • Provide reports to the service lead on activity as requested.
  • Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
  • Undertake clinical/service improvement audits.
  • The post holder will utili
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