Care Practitioner - Treatment Rooms Sefton Place

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

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 all 4 sites.

An opportunity has arisen within the Treatment Room Service in Sefton Place for a Band 5 Care Practitioner. This is a permanent post 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 turnover 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, including bank holidays. There is a requirement within this post to be able to travel across localities to various clinic sites for work purposes.

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 is 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, as well as 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 costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amy Ohagan Job title: Team Leader Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07880130883