About this role
Job summary
Mersey care are looking for an enthusiastic, hardworking Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join their innovative and dynamic Equipment Advisory Service (EAS), working to support Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton Community Equipment Services. The positions could be suitable for an existing Assistant Practitioner or a Health Care Assistant with the right level of experience.
Your key role would be to support the qualified clinical equipment advisers in the assessment of adults and children for safe and suitable community equipment provision, providing and sharing your knowledge and skills in relation to assessment and provision of community equipment.
Ongoing training in relation to assessment skills and equipment available will be provided.
The service works collaboratively with many other services around Liverpool and are always open to new ways of working together to ensure safe and effective equipment is provided in a timely manner.
For any further details or to arrange an informal discussion or visit please contact Rebecca Murphy, Clinical Lead - EAS:[email protected] Tel:0151 296 7736.
Main duties of the job
To give advice on appropriate community equipment within the patient home environment.
To support with the review of Care homes across all areas to ensure appropriate use of equipment and to encourage return of unused equipment.
To Support the prescribing of equipment in the community, to prevent hospital admissions and promote safe discharges from secondary care.
To assist the Clinical lead with training and education on safe and appropriate prescribing of equipment in the community setting.
To manage own caseload and work autonomously.
Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff
Undertake risk assessments on defined patient in line with relevant guidelines.
Support with procurement exercises for all community equipment services.
Support with duty on a day to day basis responding to telephone and email enquiries.
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload under the supervision of a qualified practitioner. The primary function of the role is to support the responsive services of the Equipment Advisory Service. This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs, joint assessments with qualified practitioners and supporting with the running of the EAS training programmes. The post holder will support qualified practitioners with community equipment reviews of the catalogue and ensuring equipment is issued and recorded effectively.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence basedclinical decision making under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
Value social inclusion
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work based experience.
Experience Essential
Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care. Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health. Experience of previous work in health care Clinical Governance and Risk Management Actively involved in professional development
Desirable
Experience in assessing for and ordering community equipment.
Knowledge Essential
Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills Ability to travel, for work purposes
Desirable
Knowledge of developing self- care skills in patients/clients
Skills Essential
Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills Ability to travel, for work purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Lifehouse, Brunswick business Park
Summers Road
Liverpool
L3 4BL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)