Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Practitioner in Mental Health
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Advanced Clinician (Registered Nurse - mental health)
We have an exciting opportunity within our Care Home Liaison Team in Knowsley for an Advanced Clinician (Registered Nurse - mental health).
Knowsley Care Home Liaison
Knowsley Care Home liaison is an integrated team which supports the mental and physical health and wellbeing of care home residents to deliver an improved level of quality of care and patient safety for residents.
Our aim is to support residents, families and carers to plan for future healthcare needs and to reduce the number of avoidable, non-elective hospital attendances, admissions and re-admissions.
Opportunities
Opportunities for continuing professional development such as Master's modules are encouraged.
Experience
Experience of dementia/older adults/care homes would be desirable.
Responsibilities
- To utilise expert mental health professional skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, intervention and clinical guidance as appropriate, whilst responding to changes to the service user physical and mental health.
- To formulate, implement and evaluate interventions with individuals and their carers where appropriate.
- To make and receive referrals as an advanced autonomous practitioner.
- To demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area of expertise.
- To critically appraise, evaluate and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research evidence within a specialist area of practice.
- Refer service users to other members of the multi-disciplinary team or specialisms as their needs require.
- To use independent non-medical prescribing skills in the initiation and evaluation of treatment plans.
- Establish consistent and evidence-based side-effect medication monitoring, acting and findings, as necessary.
- To discharge from a specialist area of practice with an effective discharge plan of care in place.
- To liaise with other services as required.
- To refer for medical intervention as the service users’ needs require.
- To make changes within the clinical practices of the specialist team based on evidence, policy and/or the identified needs of service users.
- To ensure that clinical and non-clinical risk is identified.
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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 are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
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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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Janet Raine
- Job title: Community Matron, Care Home Team Lead
- Email address: janet.raine@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07733323861
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