Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
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The Mersey Care Homeless Health Team
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.
Services Include
- Holistic Assessments: The team conducts thorough assessments to understand the health needs of clients, addressing both physical and mental issues.
- Healthcare Advice: They provide guidance on managing health problems and navigating the healthcare system.
- Ongoing Support: The team offers continuous support and follow-up care to ensure the clients receive necessary services.
- Signposting and Referrals: They connect clients with other relevant services, such as housing support, mental health services, and addiction support.
The Homeless Health Team aims to support anyone experiencing health problems who is currently homeless or at risk of losing their home within the St Helens area. They collaborate with various professionals and organizations, including health and care professionals, housing charities, and probation services to provide comprehensive support.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and participate in the physical health clinical care of patients referred into the Homeless Health Team.
- 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.
- Appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients.
- Identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret the results, and act on any results requiring clinical intervention or management.
- 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.
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Qualifications and Requirements
- 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.
About Mersey Care
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 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.
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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 organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible Working
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Victoria Griffiths
- Job Title: Clinical Team Manager
- Email Address: victoria.griffiths@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01704383035
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