HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L31 1HW |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7118431/350-TWS7118431 |
Summary
HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner Band 8b
Secure pathway avoidance pilot
Secondment – 2 years
This is an opportunity for a highly skilled, values driven leader to play a pivotal role in reducing restrictive practices; in particular, long-term segregation and to maintain a pathway which prevents escalation to secure services and enables a position of secure hospital avoidance with a view to directing men and women to a community-based pathway across the North West Region. This role is for two years, and the expectation is that the specialist practitioner will be instrumental in the long-term embedding of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care in clinical practice.
Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative have collaborated with Mersey Care NHS Foundation trust to develop a pilot to test out the effectiveness of the HOPE(S) model in preventing people escalating up the system. This builds on the successful HOPE(S) programme following the national improvement programme to reduce long-term segregation and overall reliance on restrictive practices with children and young people, autistic adults and people with a learning disability.
To provide strategic clinical leadership and innovation using the most up to date and evidence-based theory and practice with a specific focus on the application of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care to reduce long term segregation and innovative strategies to improve clinical practice and reduce restrictive practices with adults with autism and/or a learning disability and those with mental ill-health across Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
To support Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative in the delivery of clinical quality improvement and innovation in relation to reducing long term segregation and other forms of restrictive practice. To provide Clinical and Practice leadership for the HOPE(S) programme. To deliver key outcomes on this portfolio to the Programme Steering Group.
To offer expert clinical advice and chair meetings with organisations within Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative. To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals. To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within
In Patient Services across Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative. To work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Apr 2025