Main area Operations Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Early shift/Late shift/Long Day/Night shift)
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Employer The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site The Hillingdon Hospital
Town Uxbridge
Salary £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc
Salary period Yearly
Closing 24/02/2025 23:59
Junior Clinical Site Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 7
An Exciting Opportunity has arisen to join the Clinical Site Practitioner Team at The Hillingdon Hospital. This is a new developmental role as a Junior Clinical Site Practitioner working alongside the Clinical Site Team.
As a member of the Trust’s 24-hour Clinical Site Practitioner Team, you are responsible for the management of emergency and elective admissions.
You will ensure safe and appropriate placement of patients by supporting efficient patient flows and optimal utilization of the Trust bed capacity.
Ensure all relevant national and Trust operational targets are achieved. This requires the ability to balance the demand for an optimal level of elective activity with a high flow emergency rate, whilst maintaining contingency plans for emerging site issues across the Trust.
This is a developmental post working as a member of the Trust’s 24-hour Clinical Site Practitioner Team with a vision to progress into a Band 8 position.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide senior nursing managerial support and advice to all clinical areas within the Trust, and undertake advanced clinical patient assessments and interventions as part of the Hospital at Night member at night and out of hours.
2. Participate and coordinate supporting the Trust’s emergency response teams to fire, security alerts, cardiac arrests, trauma calls, NEWS calls, other clinical emergencies, and be responsible for the coordination and first line management of Major Incidents and serious untoward incidents as site management issues arise out of hours.
3. Maintain a visible senior leadership presence in the hospital out of hours, ensuring high standards of quality care and experience for all patients by working closely with all of the multidisciplinary teams, supporting them in managing difficult situations and patient care concerns, and ensuring safe optimal allocation of staff and resources.
4. Responsible for the management of emergency and elective admission processes across the Trust, ensuring safe and appropriate placement of patients by supporting efficient patient flows and optimal utilization of the Trust bed capacity.
Working for our organisation
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics, and maternity services.
The safety and well-being of our patients and staff is paramount. We are making urgent improvements to address this, particularly in infection prevention and control. We are progressing by working in partnership with local GPs, charities, community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighboring hospitals, and the wider North West London Integrated care system, ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Person specification
* NMC Registered Nurse
* BSc in Nursing and Health Studies
* Significant experience in different and varied acute clinical settings, such as HDU, CCOT, CCU, and confident working at a Band 6/7+ level
* Experience of teaching and assessing
* Experience in team management and managerial decision-making in the application of professional judgement in a range of both clinical and nonclinical settings
* Alert or Intermediate Life Support course
* Cannulation, Phlebotomy, and catheterization (male and female)
* Perform a comprehensive clinical assessment of the Adult
* Master’s degree qualification or willingness to undertake
* Experience working in emergency or elective pathways
* Experience and knowledge of bed management flow
* Management of NIV including interpretation of ABGs
* Advanced Life Support course
* Management of tracheostomy
* Non-medical prescribing course
Please note: If you do not meet the requirements for the role or have specific registration where required then your application will be automatically rejected.
If you do not hear from within 2 weeks of the closing date please assume you are unsuccessful.
The Hillingdon Hospital will use the information provided primarily for the purposes of managing your employment within the Trust.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Gulumser Harley
Job title Deputy Head of Site and Lead Nurse for H@N
Email address gulumser.harley@nhs.net
Telephone number 07977692024
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