Job overview
Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner, have you experience or an interest in General Practice and looking for a new challenge?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our dedicated, dynamic, and friendly team at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre based within St Helens hospital. You may also work within the community including case managing and providing holistic medical care to patients within a busy care home.
You will be an integral part of Mersey & West Lancashire’s clinical team supporting our GP surgery and care home residents. You will clinically support patients (both adults and children) with acute and urgent health conditions and with an emphasis on prevention of hospital care and or admission. You will further support our team with professional development, supervision and ensuring the most up to date evidence-based practice is implemented promoting the best patient experience and outcomes.
Previous experience within a Primary Care and/or Community setting is essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously as a senior nurse within the Primary Care/Community environment, reviewing patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed health problems; triage, taking comprehensive histories, undertaking clinical examinations, diagnosing, planning & implementing car, prescribing medication and making referrals where appropriate. You will also be responsible for supervising and supporting junior staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the detailed job description and main duties of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for short periods during a given time when moving and transferring patients using hoists and other lifting aids
- Required to move patients on trolleys and in wheelchairs
- Required to concentrate when carrying out care. Work is generally predictable but occasional requirement to deal with unpredictable emergency situations
- Working closely with complex patients and their carers
- Supporting patients, carers and families who have been given bad news
- Supporting staff when delivering and patients when receiving complex interventions
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills demonstrating negotiation and persuasion skills
- Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in Care Management within the specialty
- Ability to manage demanding and challenging workload
- Evidence of both theoretical and practical skills and competency in IV therapy and care
- Ability to handle sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to make effective decisions
- Interpretation of diagnostic tests
- Ability to build rapport with colleagues, patients and relatives
- Experience of MDT working
- Strong leadership and team building skills
- Ability to use own initiative
- Effective time management skills
- Ability to work autonomously or within a team
Desirable
- Enthusiastic, dynamic, self-motivated
- Confident with IT
Experience
Essential
- Significant demonstrable experience of working in an acute care setting some of this must include working at a senior level managing and leading teams and this will be assessed at interview
- Ability to demonstrate specialist expertise underpinned by theory through CPD
- Excellent clinical reasoning /clinical decision making skills
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programs of care, protocols and guidelines
- Knowledge of Clinical risk management and Governance
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered health professional with legal and accountable responsibilities for non-medical prescribing
- First level registered nurse/professional UK registration
- First Degree (or equivalent experience)
- Post registration course in specialty
- Immediate Life Support
- Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice
Desirable
- Teaching qualification (C&G730, CertEd, PGCE or equivalent)
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This advert is for Advanced Clinical Practitioner with Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in Marshalls Cross Medical Centre. It is listed as a Band 8 Nurse practitioner role. The advertised salary is Per annum pro rata. The contract type is 3 months (Fixed Term Contract with a possibility to extend.). The application deadline is 31 Aug 2026.
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