Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Learning Disabilities

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An exciting opportunity has arisen within the St Helens and Knowsley Learning Disability Community Team for an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to be a key senior member of the Intensive Support Team.

The successful applicant will be working alongside the established Community Learning Disability Team to develop, initiate, lead and manage clinical assessment, formulation and interventions, staff training and special projects consistent with the aims of the Trust, service plan and service operational policy.

THIS IS AN INTERNAL SECONDMENT OPPORTUNITY OPEN ONLY TO EMPLOYEES OF MERSEY CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST.

APPLICANTS MUST HAVE THEIR CURRENT LINE MANAGER’S APPROVAL TO APPLY FOR THIS INTERNAL SECONDMENT PRIOR TO APPLYING.

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. Successful candidates will be required to pay for the cost of the DBS Disclosure which is £44.00, the cost of which will be deducted from first salary.

The post holder will be a key senior member of the Enhanced Intensive Support Team (IST), working alongside the established Community Learning Disabilities Team, working alongside clinical team managers and associated specialists to develop, initiate, lead and manage clinical assessment, staff training and special projects consistent with the aims of the Trust, service plan and service operational policy.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.

The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery.

These Principles Will Recognise The Need To

Promote safe practices

Value the aims of service users

Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice

Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change

Value social inclusion

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Bork Job title: Clinical Psychologist/Clinical Lead for IST Email address: natalie.bork@Merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 426 5885