Clinical Nurse Specialist

We have an opportunity for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to work in our Community Neighbourhood Nursing teams in North Sefton and Liverpool. The post holder will demonstrate at all times a comprehensive knowledge base and promote excellence in nursing practice in a dynamic healthcare environment working within the integrated community nursing service to lead on optimising care, admission avoidance and complex supported discharge pathways. As an active part of a team, the post holder is expected to lead, manage and provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner and a role model to the whole team. It is essential that they demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills, ensuring that they use initiative and work autonomously.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will be part of a multi -disciplinary team and actively support integration, transformation and future establishment of health and care pathways.

Responsible for standards of safe, high quality care consistently delivering evidence based practice. To support the delivery of care which is patient focused, promotes self -care and ensures that the service adapts/develops in response to the needs of the local population.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joanne Rogers Job title: Clinical Services Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07585803525