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Advanced Clinical Practitioner for Specialist Diabetes Care
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Covers Monday - Friday service)
Job ref
350-CC7345688-B
Employer
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sefton Place
Town
Sefton
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
20/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Band 8a

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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

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and conscientious individual to join our Community Specialist Diabetes Team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. We are looking for a highly motivated and resilient candidate, to support our Community Specialist Diabetes team, based across Sefton  geographical area.

The service is current delivered between the hours of 9am-5pm  Monday - Friday 

The post holder must show commitment in supporting and in the development of others to ensure a consistent, quality driven delivery of service, mentorship, and clinical supervision. You will also ensure the delivery of the trust strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within their recognised remit.

Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks the Advanced Clinical practitioner, will exercise independent judgment to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care. 

The Advanced Clinical practitioner will provide the teams with advanced clinical leadership, having undergone training to meet all academic and core clinical requirements (4 pillars of advanced practice) relevant to the role.

The Advanced Clinical practitioner reporting lines will be via the Sefton Place Leadership Structure. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams and wider partners.

 

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

To support in the leadership of Specialist Nursing Teams whilst being accountable for the performance, quality, and clinical effectiveness of the team.

A key outcome of the role is to support your team to understand and own their quality, recognise, and respond to patient safety concerns, whilst identifying, assessing, and managing risk.

The post holder is expected to provide direct patient care, acting as an expert practitioner ensuring that the specialist nurses within the team practice within a legal and ethical framework that adheres to The Code and local Trust Policies and Procedures. 

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registration with relevant clinical body
  • Full Masters qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP)
  • V300 Non Medical Prescribing
  • Mentorship/teaching
  • Clinical Examination Skills - Level 7
Desirable criteria
  • Masters/Degree level qualification in Diabetes Management

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Working autonomously in an advanced role.
  • Proven leadership skills
  • Significant post registration experience
  • Demonstratable experience of working at an autonomous level within Diabetes specialism
  • Research Audits
Desirable criteria
  • Community experience working within a multidisciplinary led environment

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 Orientated

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
  • Experience in change management
  • Negotiation and conflict management skills
  • IT literate
  • Able to work across boundaries within primary care and offering support to secondary care

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardCTP The Ministry of Defence partnering with Right ManagementNavajo - Merseyside and CheshireDisability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Szczesniak
Job title
Operational Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07973960150
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