Community Falls Nurse

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Community Nurse Practitioner within the Knowsley Falls and Fracture Prevention Service.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

The applicant will have good IT skills and be willing to travel.

The post holder will be required to undertake multi-factorial falls assessments, both in the community and in a clinic environment, making onward referrals to appropriate services and providing low level equipment.

Training will be provided if required

The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of clinical care as part of the Falls and Fracture Prevention Service.

They will be undertaking multifactorial falls assessments for service users aged 55 and above in the Community setting, either at clinic, in their own home or in a care home setting.

These assessments follow NICE guidelines for Falls and Osteoporosis risk.

The post holder will be expected to assess for Falls Risks, carrying out a range of clinical assessments including physiological observations, escalating any concerns via an agreed and defined service plan.

They will be expected to use shared decision-making techniques to agree and facilitate an individual based plan to reduce future falls and fracture risk where possible with the service users.

Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role.

They will work effectively and collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients, to support the delivery of policy and procedures, and provide clinical leadership.

The role will also involve health monitoring, health promotion activities, and the development and delivery of training and education programmes across the community.

The post holder will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.

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.

• 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 as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
• Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with physical or mental health needs.
• Promote and deliver evidenced 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,…