Care Practitioner

About the Role

We are looking for Band 5 nurses to work within our district nursing teams based in Liverpool Place, to cover our 8am‑8pm 7 days a week model. The service is undergoing significant developments as part of our plan to deliver integrated community care for patients on a neighbourhood footprint across South Liverpool.

Working to the Mersey Care values, you will have excellent empathy, communication skills and a person‑centred approach. You will be keen to continue learning and develop the competencies needed to give evidence‑based care to your patients in their own home. Clinical decision‑making skills and a problem‑solving approach are an essential component of this role. You will be a good team player who can also work autonomously, escalating and reporting back appropriately.

The service operates 24 hours per day, 365 days per year to cover our 8am‑8pm 7 days a week model.

Full driving licence is required for this role.

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 specialise in 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.

• Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well‑being.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
• Identify and manage appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over‑the‑counter medication.
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• Promote and deliver evidence‑based care.
• Assist senior practitioners as required.
• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating.
• Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues’ viewpoints to others.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
• Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
• Utilising a structured framework (e.g. root cause analysis) participate in the management, review and identify learning…