Job summary
- Main area
- walk in centre
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC6637266
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Smithdown children's walk in centre
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Nurse Practitioner
Band 5
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen working within Merseycare NHS trust walk in centres - based at Smithdown children's walk in centre.
We see and treat minor ailments and injuries across eight walk in centre/UTC's sites. We are open 365 days a year from 8am-8pm.
Main duties of the job
Walk-in centres offer access to treatment and advice for minor illnesses and injuries.
We would be expect the successful candidate to increase their clinical skills to include the assessment care and treatment of conditions such as minor infections and rashes, fractures and lacerations, emergency contraception, stomach upsets, superficial cuts and bruises, minor burns and strains.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to have the chance to develop excellent clinical skills with autonomous and highly skilled professionals.
The post holder will be based at Smithdown children's walk in centre but will be expected to be flexible to work across our other adult walk in centres, where appropriate.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assessment; treatment and discharge of patients requiring same day urgent care treatment
Please refer to full job description
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration. RSCN for Smithdown Childrens WIC
- Mentorship qualification or commitment to undertake training
- Clinical examination course
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification or commitment to undertake training
- Clinical examination course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working at Band 5 level
- Evidence in managing patient care
- Commitment to professional development
- Experience of communicating across professional and organisational boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a relevant role e.g. Walk in Centre Primary Care or A/E
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Willing to expand competencies
- Demonstrates commitment to academic professional development
- Evidence of CPD / short courses
- Demonstrates commitment to clinical supervision
- Understanding of the Nurse Practitioner role including clinical autonomy, accountability and responsibility in view of NMC guidelines.
- Demonstrate ability to identify own training and development needs
- Willing to maintain motivation and focus in the development of new primary care initiatives
- Demonstrates effective communication skills.
- Demonstrable basic IT literacy.
- Demonstrates flexibility to work across all Walk-in Centres and all shift patterns supporting a positive approach to team working.
- Empathic and understanding nature.
- Demonstrates ability to work under pressure and use own initiative.
- Demonstrates a basic understanding of principles of multiagency collaboration and communication.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of current legislation in relation to Wallk in Centres and the Clinical Governance agenda
- Demonstrate commitment to teaching others
- Demonstrates understanding of current issues affecting community health services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Bratley
- Job title
- Clinical Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 285 4820
- Additional information
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