Nurse Practitioner ICRAS

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 31,000 - GBP 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Band 5 nurse or therapist for community services in Liverpool. The role involves providing high-quality nursing and therapy treatments, with a focus on preventing avoidable hospital admissions. Candidates must possess relevant clinical qualifications and demonstrate excellent communication and teamwork skills. The position is permanent with full-time hours and offers competitive salary. Applications from diverse backgrounds are encouraged. Closing date for applications is 19/02/2026.

Qualifications

• Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field.
• Clinical supervision experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, culturally sensitive, nursing and therapy treatment.
• Prevent inappropriate hospital admissions through multi-disciplinary assessment.
• Collaborate with existing social care providers and agencies.

Skills

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

IT literate

Ability to travel

Awareness of Clinical Governance

Education

Registered practitioner

Mentor/teaching qualification or equivalent

Job description

Main area Liverpool and South Sefton Community Services Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 350-CC7760867

Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Litherland Town Hall Town Liverpool Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/02/2026 23:59

Band 5

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled andIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

The vision for the Integrated Community Re-enablement and Assessment Service (ICRAS) is that a multidisciplinary team work together to manage the care of people both in the community, requiring support of an urgent nature and who are risk of imminent hospital admission as well as those transitioning from an acute environment who require additional support. The service consists of a multidisciplinary approach including General Medical Practitioners, Advanced Practitioners, Pharmacists, Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Podiatrist, Dietician, Assistant Practitioners and Health Care Assistants.

The ICRAS service operates for 24 hours a day over 7 days, services across Liverpool and South Sefton may vary in operating/shift hours for example therapists core hours/shifts and weekend rota.

Main duties of the job

ICRAS provides high quality, culturally sensitive, nursing and therapy treatment/interventions for people in their permanent or temporary place of residence. Promoting a co-ordinated approach to admission avoidance that facilitates a seamless service leading to improved health and social care outcomes.

Therefore reducing the incidence of re-admission through education seeking early intervention providing an evidence based approach to clinical practice to improved patient care.

ICRAS aims to prevent inappropriate and/or avoidable hospital admissions by providing short term, intensive, multidisciplinary and holistic assessment treatment of care, ensuring collaborative working with existing social care providers and other agencies, NWAS, working with GPs, clinicians and Liverpool City Council via Home First +

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

ICRAS provides high quality, culturally sensitive, nursing and therapy treatment/interventions for people in their permanent or temporary place of residence (Hub rehab units). Promoting a co-ordinated approach to admission avoidance that facilitates a seamless service leading to improved health and social care outcomes.

Therefore reducing the incidence of re-admission through education seeking early intervention providing an evidence based approach to clinical practice to improved patient care.

ICRAS aims to prevent inappropriate and/or avoidable hospital admissions by providing short term, intensive, multidisciplinary and holistic assessment treatment of care, ensuring collaborative working with existing social care providers and other agencies, NWAS, working with GPs, clinicians and Liverpool City Council via Home First +.

ICRAS philosophy reflects the vision and values of Mersey Care NHS Trust.

ICRAS promotes a “Just and Learning Culture”, where we put equal emphasis on accountability and learning.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered practitioner
• Mentor/teaching qualification, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.

Knowledge/Experience

• Evidence of clinical experience in relevant field
• Clinical supervision experience

Skills

• Awareness of Clinical Governance, patient group directions and associated policies.
• Understanding of audit process.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
• IT literate
• Work as member of a team
• Ability to travel to work across boundaries
• Understanding of local and national quality initiatives.

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [emailprotected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [emailprotected] ) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Sarah Murphy
Job title Clinical Team Lead North Nursing Neighbourhood
Email address [emailprotected]
Telephone number 07350436839

Additional information
Dale Jeffers
Clinical Team Lead South Sefton Neighbourhood - 07778445860