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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a passionate and committed non-medical prescriber with Advanced Practice qualification to join Moss House community mental health team as a Band 7 advanced practitioner.

The post holder will operate as part of an innovative, forward thinking team, attending weekly multidisciplinary meetings, carrying out initial assessments, follow ups and reviews of service users as part of the shared caseload of the team.

The post holder will be expected to prescribe mental health medication and ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust medicine code.

The advanced practitioner will have the ability to work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes for all.

An ability to utilise expert mental and physical health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention and clinical guidance as appropriate, whilst responding to changes to the service user physical and mental and mental health.

The advanced practitioner will provide clinical leadership to a dedicated team of professionals, and there will be opportunities to develop practice within the team.

In return they will be supported by the CMHT team, they will receive clinical support from the teams Psychiatrist and managerial supervision from the Operational Manager.

An advanced practitioner within Moss House CMHT will be expected to provide strategic clinical leadership in relation to mental health using the most up to date and evidence-based theory.

The advanced practitioner will undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for service users and be able to offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers and other professionals.

The advanced practitioner will be able to demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within the specialist area of practice and to support and complement the existing medical arrangements within the CMHT.

The advanced practitioner will visit service users in the most appropriate setting to meet their needs as required and to refer service users to other members of the multi-disciplinary team or specialism's as their needs require.

The advanced practitioner will use independent non-medical prescribing skills in the initiation and evaluation of treatment plans and establish consistent and evidence based side-effect medication monitoring, acting and findings as necessary.

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.

The advanced practitioner will assess, plan, evaluate and discharge from CMHT care as appropriate to the service users needs.

To liaise with other services as required.

To refer for medical intervention as the service users needs require.

To make changes within the clinical practices of the team based on evidence, policy and/or the identified needs of service users.

To work as advanced clinical lead.

To utilise expert mental and physical health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention and clinical guidance as appropriate, whilst responding to changes to the service user physical and mental and mental health.