Job summary
- Main area
- Treatment Room Service
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC7347850
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Treatment Rooms - Sefton Place Clinics
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Care Practitioner
Band 5
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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 ethnically diverse, 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.
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Job overview
To work in a clinic based setting, assessing patients who attend for wound care, leg ulcer management, including Lower limb Assessments, Injections, Catheter Care and Ear Irrigation
The Treatment Room service covers 4 clinic sites across South Sefton and 4 clinic sites across North Sefton. The successful candidate will need to be able to work autonomously whilst demonstrating a team approach and be willing to travel across sites all 4 sites.
Main duties of the job
An opportunity has arisen within the Treatment Room Service in Sefton Place for a Band 5 Care Practitioner. This is a permanent posts and will be 37.5 hours per week.
The successful candidates will be working across various clinic sites within Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
An existing knowledge of Tissue Viability and Leg Ulcer Management would be advantageous. The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the care needs of patients within a defined neighbourhood. The service operates appointment led clinics with fast turn over of patients.
For the Treatment Room Service there is a requirement to move and travel between clinic sites. The service aims to operate 7 days a week, with bank holidays. There is a requirement within this post to be able to travel across localities to various clinic sites for work purposes.
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
Main responsibilities are to run planned nurse led clinics for wound care, leg ulcer management, injections, urinary catheters & ear irrigation.
This post offers staff excellent opportunities to build on existing skills and develop competencies within these areas. Clinical decision making skills and a problem solving approach is an essential component of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner
Desirable criteria
- Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Clinical supervision experience.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies.
- Understanding of audit process.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Conflict resolution skills.
- IT literate.
- Work as member of a team.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.
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
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
- Amy Ohagan
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07880130883
- Additional information
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