Senior Clinical Nurse

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

Community Care Division, Sefton, CYP and Families has a exciting opportunity for a motivated, enthusiastic nurse to provide leadership and oversight to our clinical teams, working in partnership with service users, carers and other key stakeholders to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

This is a key role in the division and the successful post holder will provide strategic clinical leadership using the most up to date and evidence-based theory and practice and offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals.

The post holder will demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within Sefton, CYP and Families.

The post holder will be required will also work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The successful post holder's will evaluate existing nursing practice through audit and evaluation of expected practice standards. They will embrace a culture of continuous learning and service development utilising Patient Safety Incident Response Framework techniques and analysis of key safety indicators. They will highly value the experience of our service users, carers and workforce to inform and drive service improvement initiatives embracing a quality culture through strong clinical leadership. The post holder's will support the Head of Nursing with the implementation delivery and commitment to the service line patient experience strategy. They will be innovative in their thinking with a passion for clinical excellence both influencing and co producing strategies that address identified areas for improvement. They will support the Head of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing in shaping and developing relevant policy and procedure and will assist the ongoing review and development of clinical pathways in keeping with National Standards and Evidenced based interventions for service users, young people and families across the Division.

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

1.To work as senior clinical nurse in Community Care Division.

2. To formulate, implement and evaluate nursing interventions which support the clinical pathway for patients in the Community Care Division.

3. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and engagement.

5. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing nursing practice in the Community Care Division.

6. To demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area of expertise.

7. To critically appraise, evaluate and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research evidence within a specialist area of practice.

8. To liaise with other services as required.

9. Evaluate nursing practice through audit of service and practice standards, developing and managing strategies that address any shortfalls.

10. Ensure the development and delivery of relevant training programmes, including the development of co produced programmes, for both staff and patient, reflect service need and development.

11. Ensure supervision and reflective practiced standards are adhered to and address shortfalls where necessary.

12. Ensure the PDP process is robust, ensuring systems are in place to address to ensure nurses have the skills and capabilities to deliver high standards of care.

13. To provide verbal or written reports as requested.

14. To identify areas for service development in your area of responsibility.

15. To ensure and support the clinical leads in monitoring, auditing and developing clinical practice in line with the business plan and service development requirements.

16. To adhere to Trust Policies reporting to the Community Care Division management team any failures in adherence to Trust Policy.

17. To contribute to the development of Trust Policies and local Guidelines.

18. To maintain the high standards in clinical expertise that this role requires.

19. To maintain, monitor and present data relating to the role.

20. To be consistent and active in evaluating the effectiveness of the role.

21. Ensure the development and promotion nursing / clinical research.

22. Participate in clinical research as necessary whilst ensuring adherence to ethical practice.

23. To participate in service meetings.

24. To offer and participate in regular systematic supervision.

25. Establish priorities and organise workload to ensure effective use of time.

26. Ensure systematic records of treatment and progress are kept, and that written reports are provided for relevant returns.

27. Produce full evaluation of service and its impact on an annual basis.

28. Support the Divisional Directors and deputies in delivering required objectives and developing the Community Care Division nursing strategy including involvement in clinical governance at a senior level; to participate in on-call Rota and the duties that this entails; Take on additional duties /projects as required by the division

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse
• Educated to degree level or equivalent knowledge of operating at a degree level for a substantial period of time
• Significant experience in clinical practice at a senior level
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development
• Ability to evidence the required core competencies at senior management level
• Educated to masters degree level or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
• The post holder would be expected to have abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice, demonstrating leadership skills, and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
• Will have experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards
• Will also be able to demonstrate training and teaching expertise in applied settings
• Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement.
• Will require an in-depth knowledge of clinical care with evidence of post-registration development activity
• evidence of post-registration development activity

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement
• Be able to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
• Will possess excellent leadership and communication skills
• Will have the ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture
• Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship
• Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients
• Articulate and effective communicator

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

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

• Senior Clinical Nurse - Community Care Division (PDF, 166.7KB)
• OH Risk (PDF, 144.4KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)