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Job overview

The Urgent Community Response Service in Knowsley  provides care and support for patients over the age of 18 years old and whom are at risk of hospital admission. The Urgent Community Response team  provide a two hour crisis response to a range of nursing interventions listed by NHS England as meeting the criteria for a two hour response. The service is delivered jointly by Mersey Care and Knowsley Borough Council to provide urgent health and social care to patients.

In addition the service is in the process of expanding its clinical workforce to support the Virtual Wards by the Acute Hospital Trusts.  The Urgent Community Response team will support those patients admitted to the Virtual wards to remain in the community. 

As an autonomous practitioner the post holder will have an advanced clinical role with responsibility for assessing, planning, managing and co-ordinating the care of people, in their own homes and care home settings, with highly complex needs and long-term conditions within a defined caseload. The practitioner will provide comprehensive holistic care sensitive to the needs of the population using advanced clinical assessments and case management techniques to reduce unplanned hospital admissions and facilitate early discharge to reduce lengths of stay. 

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Shortlisting planned for 22 July

Interviews planned for 1 August

Main duties of the job

As part of your role you will see individuals aged 18+ with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.

We are looking  for caring and compassionate individuals who have a positive attitude towards providing care for patients in the community. The Urgent Community Response team comprise of members from community nursing, therapies and social care backgrounds. 

The successful candidate will have previous experience of working within a patient facing community or urgent care setting, the ability to work within a fast paced environment and be comfortable working both within a team and autonomously.

You must be able to travel throughout the Knowsley, Liverpool and Southport borough to the homes of patients, from a central base. The service hours of operation are 8am to 10pm, 365 days a year including bank holidays.

For the Band 6 Senior Nurse Practitioner role we welcome applications from both Senior Nurses and Paramedics. 

Working for our organisation

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.