About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has opened up for a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner within the Liverpool Adult Community Hub based at Moss House.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within adult mental 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 within their care. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work with the multi-disciplinary team providing leadership, sharing knowledge, and engaging in research and promoting evidence-based practice.
The ACP's reporting lines will be via the specified divisional leadership structure. They will work alongside and support the education and development of trainee APs and the wider MDT within the specified Division/service line. The ACP will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams and wider partners.
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
Clinical Practice:
Working autonomously deliver, manage, and evaluate clinical care for patients/service users within the mental health service line.
Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate.
Working in partnership with individuals, families and others utilise and evidence advanced knowledge and skills to appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and manage patients through a complete episode of care.
Demonstrate effective communication skills supporting people in making decisions that promote person centred care.
Utilise knowledge and expertise in making clinical reasoned decisions for patients with differentiated and undifferentiated presentations and complexity.
Synthesise information from multiple sources to make appropriate evidence-based judgements in line with professional boundaries.
Exercise professional judgement to manage risk, including in situations were there is complexity and unpredictability.
Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients including safeguarding, and issues pertaining to child protection & vulnerable adults.
Deliver care that is underpinned by evidence-based knowledge, skills and demonstrated competence.
Act as a clinical role model in the delivery of clinical care that meets patients within the mental health service line.
Maintain up to date patient records in accordance with Trust policy and professional bodies standards.
Adhere to trust infection and prevention control policies and procedures.
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).
Leadership and Management:
Provide clinical leadership and support taking responsibility for the supervision/development of junior members of the multi- professional team.
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
Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
Working collectively lead and actively contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes within mental health division that facilitate patient experiences and outcomes.
Evaluate own and service evaluation, demonstrating the impact of the Advanced Clinical Practice on service effectiveness and quality of care.
Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients including issues pertaining to child protection & vulnerable adults.
Ability to adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care.
To provide advice on patient care to the wider MDT considering all aspects of clinical Governance and act as a specialist resource within the working area.
Promote and adhere to the principles and practice of the Trusts clinical governance framework.
Lead and actively contribute to the review and development of clinical patient pathways and the development of the mental health service, ensuring our services are safe and reduction of unwarranted variation, promoting and sharing the adoption of best practice.
Continually develop practice to respond to future need and identify future development needs, prioritising workload, and clinical interventions as appropriate
Demonstrate receptiveness to challenge and strategies that promote and advocate for safe clinical care.
Work to an individual scope of practice within the ethical, legal, professional and Trust policy, governance, and process.
Education:
Identify own learning needs and development plan.
Adhere to CPD requirements of the Trust in relation to maintaining evidence of on-going competence.
Share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others across the organisation as appropriate.
Actively engage in peer review to develop own and others practice.
Contribute to a culture of lifelong learning for all staff.
Support the development of others learning, including team members and Trainee ACPs in the development of care.
Act as a role model, educator, and supervisors to others
Research:
Critically engage in research activity, adhering to good practice research practice guidance, to promote evidence-based practice.
Lead on clinical audits, auditing own and others practice, acting upon findings.
Critically appraise and synthesise the outcome of relevant research, evaluation, and audit
Lead on the review and implementation of appropriate NICE guidance.
Identify gaps in evidence and application of research into practice, working with others to identify how the gaps are addressed.
Disseminate best practice
Facilitate collaborative links between clinical practice and research through pro-active networking with academic and clinical staff.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Experience of working autonomously in an Advanced Practitioner role Working within a multi- disciplinary led environment Proven leadership skills Engagement with research and audit process Engaging in Service Change to improve patient outcomes and experiences Significant experience in adult mental health setting
Qualifications Essential
Registration with relevant clinical body (NMC/HCPC) MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent such as accreditation NHSE Independent and supplementary prescribing qualification taking into consideration ACP professional discipline
Knowledge Essential
Working within a multi - disciplinary led environment Proven leadership skills Engagement with research and audit process Engaging in Service Change to improve patient outcomes and experiences
Skills Essential
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Change management Able to work across boundaries Negotiation and conflict management skills IT literate
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Moss House CMHT
Moss Street
Liverpool
L19 2NA
Employer's website https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)