Community Falls Nurse | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Community Nurse Practitioner within the Knowsley Falls and Fracture Prevention Service.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
The applicant will have good IT skills and be willing to travel.
The post holder will be required to undertake multi-factorial falls assessments, both in the community and in a clinic environment, making onward referrals to appropriate services and providing low level equipment.
Training will be provided if required
The post holder will be responsible for the delivery of clinical care as part of the Falls and Fracture Prevention Service.
They will be undertaking multifactorial falls assessments for service users aged 55 and above in the Community setting, either at clinic, in their own home or in a care home setting. These assessments follow NICE guidelines for Falls and Osteoporosis risk.
The post holder will be expected to assess for Falls Risks, carrying out a range of clinical assessments including physiological observations, escalating any concerns via an agreed and defined service plan.
They will be expected to use shared decision-making techniques to agree and facilitate an individual based plan to reduce future falls and fracture risk where possible with the service users.
Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role. They will work effectively and collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of patients, to support the delivery of
policy and procedures, and provide clinical leadership. The role will also involve health monitoring, health promotion activities, and the development and delivery of training and education programmes across the community.
The post holder will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Assess, plan, develop, implement, and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being.
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients.
Identify, and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk.
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations.
Recognise, assess, and refer patients presenting with physical or mental health needs.
Promote and deliver evidenced based care.
Assist senior practitioners as required.
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating.
Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleague’s viewpoints to others.
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments.
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.
Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating quality implementing improvements where required.
Evaluate the patients’ response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
Support and participate in shared learning across the wider organisation.
Utilising a structured framework (e.g., root cause analysis) participate in the management, review, and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and near miss events.
Participate in the performance monitoring review of the team, providing feedback as appropriate.
Act as a positive role model takes responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision.
Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment encouraging everyone to reach their potential, learn from each other and from external good practice.
Understand own responsibilities and accountability in the delivery of care to patients, ensuring that the needs of the patient are the priority.
Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility.
Work with other professionals to ensure sufficient staff of appropriate ability, quality and skill mix is available to meet the needs of patients.
Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and Standards.
Critically evaluate and review innovations and developments that are relevant to own practice.
Keep up to date with new developments locally and nationally identifying those that will enhance the team’s work.
Undertake mandatory and statutory training.
Act as an assessor to students assessing competency against set standards as requested if appropriately qualified.
Accept and delegate tasks appropriately.
The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Clinical
To provide a high standard of clinical care for service users, escalating any concerns via an agreed service plan, and acting within the standards, protocols and guidelines of the falls and fracture prevention service. This will include:
Accepting clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload
Being accountable for own clinical practice
Ensuring that those aspects of service, delivered as part of remit, meet local quality standards.
Ensuring that the dignity and respect of service users is maintained.
Being proactive in maximising health, wellbeing and falls prevention.
Participating in relevant health promotion aspects of the service
Undertaking appropriate assessments to allow the patient condition to be assessed and reviewed.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jan 2024