Advanced Clinical PractitionerNHS
Job summary
Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner, have you experience or an interest in General Practice and looking for a new challenge?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our dedicated, dynamic, and friendly team at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre based within St Helens hospital. You may also work within the community including case managing and providing holistic medical care to patients within a busy care home.
You will be an integral part of Mersey & West Lancashire's clinical team supporting our GP surgery and care home residents. You will clinically support patients (both adults and children) with acute and urgent health conditions and with an emphasis on prevention of hospital care and or admission. You will further support our team with professional development, supervision and ensuring the most up to date evidence-based practice is implemented promoting the best patient experience and outcomes.
Previous experience within a Primary Care and/or Community setting is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously as a senior nurse within the Primary Care/Community environment, reviewing patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health problems; triage, taking comprehensive histories, undertaking clinical examinations, diagnosing, planning & implementing car, prescribing medication and making referrals where appropriate. You will also be responsible for supervising and supporting junior staff.
Job description
For the detailed job description and main duties of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.