Advanced Clinical PractitionerNHS

Job summary

The Mersey Care Homeless Health Team provides essential health services and support to vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness in the St Helens area. The Homeless Health Team focuses on assisting individuals who are homeless, vulnerable housed and veterans. Their services include:

HolisticAssessments:Theteamconductsthoroughassessmentsto understand the health needs of clients, addressing both physical and mental issues.

HealthcareAdvice:Theyprovideguidanceonmanaginghealthproblemsandnavigatingthehealthcaresystem.

OngoingSupport:Theteamofferscontinuoussupportandfollow-up care to ensure the clients received necessary services.

SignpostingandReferrals:Theyconnectclientswithotherrelevantservices,suchashousingsupport,mentalhealthservices,andaddictionsupport.

TheHomelessHealthTeamaimstosupportanyoneexperiencinghealthproblemswhoiscurrentlyhomelessoratriskoflosingtheirhomewithintheStHelensarea.Theycollaboratewithvariousprofessionalsandorganisations, including health and care professionals, housing charities and probation services to provide comprehensive support.

Main duties of the job

Deliver and participate in the physical health clinical care of patients referred into the Homeless Health Team.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive physical health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.

To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients.

Is able to identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret the results and act on any results requiring clinical intervention or management.

To identify and intervene proactively where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, staff or relatives and escalate these to the health and safety team/safeguarding team.

Must have completed the Independent Non-Medical Prescribing course and registration with the NMC or HCPC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy and maintain evidence and competence of this qualification.

Job description

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within their recognised remit of physical health. Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), will exercise independent judgment to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients physical health within their care. The ACPs will provide the teams with advanced clinical leadership, having undergone training to meet all academic and core clinical requirements (4 pillars of advanced practice) relevant to the role.

The ACPs reporting lines will be via the Mental Health Care Division leadership structure. They will work alongside and support the education and development of trainee APs and the wider MDT within the Mental Health Care Division. The ACP will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams and wider partners.

The Band 8a ACP practices in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.

About us

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 and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, 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.