Job summary
- Main area
- Treatment Room Caseload Holder
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 5 x shifts / week. Service Operates 7 days a week 8am till 8pm
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 x shifts / week. Service Operates 7 days a week 8am till 8pm)
- Job ref
- 350-CC6497445
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nutgrove Villa
- Town
- Huyton
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 18/08/2024
Employer heading
Caseload Holder
Band 6
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Caseload Holder / Community Nurse Practitioner to work within the Knowsley Community Treatment Rooms.
The successful applicant would be required to work alongside the team manager, developing the service and offering clinical support to staff. The applicant will also be responsible for a clinical caseload.
Qualified treatment rooms staff work autonomously to provide high standards of patient care, provision of evidence-based treatments including wound care assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and discharge of clients attending clinic.
Offer excellent clinical supervision and encourage a culture of learning and reflective practice.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload. They will be responsible for the continuity of care and be the lead person for communication to identified stakeholders. The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload.
This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
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
Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload.
Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, life style advice and health care.
Ensure that the team provides a high quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.
In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies. Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.
Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.
Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.
In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.
Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.
Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.
Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
Support the training and development of team members who need to improve on the level of patient care delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency.
Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.
Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.
Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Professional
- Teaching/mentorship qualification or equivalent or equivalent work based experience
Desirable criteria
- V300 Prescriber, if required for the post
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Demonstrable experience in relevant area of practice or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
- Understanding of partnership working
- Understanding of the principles of care management.
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
Desirable criteria
- Management and clinical leadership experience
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
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills
- Self-management and motivation skills
- IT literate
- Able to transport self around the LCH community
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Janette MacGlashan
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789864943
- Additional information
Anne Kennedy
Case Load Holder
07704761128
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