Job summary
Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner, have you experience or an interest in General Practice and looking for a new challenge?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our dedicated, dynamic, and friendly team at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre based within St Helens hospital. You may also work within the community including case managing and providing holistic medical care to patients within a busy care home.

You will be an integral part of Mersey & West Lancashire's clinical team supporting our GP surgery and care home residents. You will clinically support patients (both adults and children) with acute and urgent health conditions and with an emphasis on prevention of hospital care and or admission. You will further support our team with professional development, supervision and ensuring the most up to date evidence-based practice is implemented promoting the best patient experience and outcomes.

Previous experience within a Primary Care and/or Community setting is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously as a senior nurse within the Primary Care/Community environment, reviewing patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health problems; triage, taking comprehensive histories, undertaking clinical examinations, diagnosing, planning & implementing car, prescribing medication and making referrals where appropriate. You will also be responsible for supervising and supporting junior staff.

About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Our services:

Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Job responsibilities
For the detailed job description and main duties of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered health professional with legal and accountable responsibilities for non-medical prescribing
• First level registered nurse/professional UK registration
• First Degree (or equivalent experience)
• Post registration course in specialty
• Immediate Life Support
• Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice

Desirable

• Teaching qualification (C&G730, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent)

Experience
Essential

• Significant demonstrable experience of working in an acute care setting some of this must include working at a senior level managing and leading teams and this will be assessed at interview
• Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise underpinned by theory through CPD
• Excellent clinical reasoning /clinical decision making skills
• Evidence of involvement in the development of programs of care, protocols and guidelines
• Knowledge of Clinical risk management and Governance

Skills
Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrating negotiation and persuasion skills
• Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in Care Management within the specialty
• Ability to manage demanding and challenging workload
• Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in IV therapy and care
• Ability to handle sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
• Ability to make effective decisions
• Interpretation of diagnostic tests
• Ability to build rapport with colleagues, patients and relatives
• Experience of MDT working
• Strong leadership and team building skills
• Ability to use own initiative
• Effective time management skills
• Ability to work autonomously or within a team

Desirable

• Enthusiastic, dynamic, self-motivated
• Confident with IT

Other
Essential

• Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for short periods during a given time when moving and transferring patients using hoists and other lifting aids
• Required to move patients on trolleys and in wheelchairs
• Required to concentrate when carrying out care. Work is generally predictable but occasional requirement to deal with unpredictable emergency situations
• Working closely with complex patients and their carers
• Supporting patients, carers and families who have been given bad news
• Supporting staff when delivering and patients when receiving complex interventions
• Supporting staff when delivering and patients when receiving complex interventions

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).