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Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
The purpose of the job is to provide information, advice, support, assessment, interventions, andfollow-up for patients with spinal cord injury.The post holder will be required to continually develop and monitor the effectiveness of the spinal cordinjury services provided by the Trust.The post holder will be required to liaise and communicate effectively across multi-disciplinary teamsto ensure seamless and effective care for patients with spinal cord injury.
Main duties of the job
The Spinal Acute Outreach Practitioner will link the Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre(NWRSIC) with patients and Multi professional teams in the three Northwest Major Trauma Centres(MTC), Intermediate Care Services, Primary, and Secondary Care. They will provide expert adviceon spinal cord injury management, education, and research at every level within the organisation aswell as having a strategic overview of patient need and bed capacity in all parts of the system.To take a lead role in each individual patient pathway for those referred to the NWRSIC.To assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of programmes of speciality-basedteaching ensuring learning objectives are achieved for all staff of the NWRSIC, carers, family, andexternal agencies.
Job responsibilities
CLINICAL1. Ensure nursing care is delivered in an expert and professional manner compatible with currentresearch-based protocols and be responsible for maintaining accurate, effective andcomprehensive written nursing records by regularly evaluating nursing documentation inaccordance with the NMC / HCPC guidelines.2. Provide support and assessment for in-patients/day case/acute outreach patients.3. Provision of information, advice and support to in-patients and out-patients and their relatives andcarers.4. Provide support to ward staff, liaison between services.5. Develop and manage nurse-led services in assessment, diagnosis, treatment and follow-up ofpatients.6. Act as Key Worker to patients undergoing investigations and diagnosis of spinal cord injury.7. Provide support to services to ensure timely and appropriate pre-admission care, in-patientinterventions, and discharge planning.8. In conjunction with the Multi-Disciplinary Team, provide support to patients undergoing spinal cordinjury surgery and treatment.9. Ensure effective liaison and referral processes with other specialities for example the threeNorthwest Major Trauma Centres, Intermediate Care Services, Primary, and Secondary Care.2Page 2 of 410. Act on concerns raised by team members or service users taking appropriate action according toTrust Policies and Guidelines.11. Demonstrate and monitor competency in clinical skills including clinical examination required forthe post and work to define protocols and guidelines for example clinical examination, non-medicalprescribing.LEADERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT12. Maintain professional competence, authority and credibility through clinical practice, acting as arole model and leader, providing supervision, support and mentorship to nursing staff.13. Contribute to the service development of Spinal Cord Injury services within the Trust.14. Promote and disseminate best practice within the Trust and external networks.15. Assist in the development, implementation and monitoring of evidence-based nursing practicestandards, guidelines, protocols, policies, and care pathways.16. Support Trust managers and NWRSIC leads to achieve appropriate targets for Spinal Cord InjuryService.17. Actively participate in peer review, clinical and managerial supervision.EDUCATION AND TRAINING18. Identify and provide support, advice, and teaching to nursing/AHPs and junior medical staff in thecare and management of patients with spinal cord injury.19. Contribute to in-house clinical skills programmes.20. Act as a mentor/supervisor for nurses/AHPs undertaking higher educational awards within thespeciality.21. Contribute to the pre-registration nurses educational experience, acting as a mentor for practiceplacements.CLINICAL GOVERNANCE22. To develop and implement clinical audit of own practice, protocols and procedures to demonstrateclinical effectiveness.23. Act on concerns raised by team members or service users taking appropriate action according toTrust Policies and Guidelines.24. Record and report incidents, accidents, or complaints to the Head of Nursing and act inaccordance with Trust Policy.25. Participate and lead in clinical research.26. To introduce and apply research findings to nursing practice where relevant.27. Act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct/Professional Body at all times.28. Undertake appropriate mandatory training in infection control and comply with all Trust InfectionControl policies relevant to the post, particularly with regard to the Hand Hygiene Policy.29. Ensure compliance to all Trust Risk Management, Research Governance and Infection ControlPolicies and Procedures and abide by the Standards for Better Health.30. Responsible for ensuring own continuing professional development and identifying developmentneeds within the Trust knowledge and skills development review process.31. Contribute to the Trusts programmes for monitoring and ensuring adherence to ClinicalStandards, for example NICE Guidelines, Quality Surveillance Programme and National ServiceFrameworks
About the employer
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
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