Community Matron - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) to work as a Community Matron within Mersey Care NHS Trust, within Liverpool Place.
You will be responsible for the delivery of proactive caseload management and provide first contact care in response to acute long-term conditions and acute episodes of illness for patients in their own homes, CQC Registered care homes and Local Authority Hubs.
As a senior clinician, you will demonstrate a high level of professionalism and provide clinical leadership within the Integrated Community teams.
As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will have an advanced clinical role with responsibility for assessing, planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people, in their own homes, carehome settings and Local Authority Hubs, with highly complex needs and long-term conditions within a defined caseload.
The post-holder must be educated to MSc degree level in Advanced Clinical Practice with relevant experience.
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.
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.
To be responsible for planning, reviewing and renegotiating programmes of care to promote health gains and maximise independence within a defined caseload in conjunction with the Integrated Care Teams (ICT) and Care Home Advanced Model of Provision (CHAMP).
To use advanced skills and expert knowledge to access the physical and psycho-social needs when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders of a defined client group, instigating therapeutic treatments based on best available evidence in order to improve health outcomes.
To play a lead role in integrated community care teams (ICT) to improve holistic assessment and approach to health and social care needs of patients.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
To accept clinical responsibility for a diverse and often complex caseload of patients, to organise this efficiently and effectively with regards to clinical priorities and use of time.
To work closely with medical, nursing, allied health professional and volunteer services across primary care, secondary care and community settings to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and care planning to ensure their physical and mental health is optimally and safely managed to afford them the best possible for basis for rehabilitation, reablement and recovery.
To develop / maintain advanced specialist clinical skills and knowledge to identify changes in a patient's condition through clinical examination.
To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions in meeting prior agreed goals and making any necessary modifications.
As a non-medical prescriber (NMP) take necessary assessments, medicines review and prescribe within the Prescribing Framework.
As a supplementary prescriber, actively manage the polypharmacy and other medication issues associated with chronic disease management and care home residents in conjunction with the patient's medical practitioner, through the use of clinical management plans.
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