Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Overview

There is an exciting opportunity to join Longmoor House as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. This role requires a full advanced practice masters and offers the chance to shape the future of urgent care services.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients accessing the service.
• Prioritise workload and clinical interventions as appropriate.
• Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
• Assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, ensuring safe management and appropriate referral or discharge.
• Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment.
• Supervise and develop junior team members.
• Identify the need for diagnostic tests, interpret results, and act on any results requiring intervention.
• Identify and intervene to ensure a safe environment for patients, staff, and relatives.
• Share knowledge and act as an expert resource within Urgent Care.
• Contribute to the development of systems that facilitate patient flow and timely discharge.
• Improve the quality of the patient experience by meeting individual clinical needs.
• Maintain up-to-date patient records in accordance with Trust policy.
• Adapt clinical knowledge and skills to different settings, influencing service delivery and patient care.
• Promote adherence to the Trust’s clinical governance framework.
• Lead on the review and implementation of NICE guidance.
• Support junior staff with clinical competencies.
• Act as a key link for communication between teams and educate staff in specific areas of expertise.
• Lead clinical audits.

Qualifications and Skills Required

• Must have completed the Independent Non-Medical Prescribing course and hold registration with the NMC or HCPC.
• Ability to adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to various clinical settings.
• Commitment to continuous professional development (CPD).

Work Environment

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust offer specialist inpatient and community services, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.