An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the team in the Medicine and Emergency Care Collaborative. The successful candidate will support the medical teams in delivering a quality service to medical outliers.
You will be joining an established team of affable, dynamic consultants, junior doctors, and nurses who strive to provide the highest level of clinical care in the friendly atmosphere of the acute footprint.
The post holder will be working autonomously as a Nurse Consultant (Senior ACP), under direct or indirect supervision of senior medical colleagues, at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment working effectively across all four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Consultants with day-to-day clinical activity (to be determined according to need of specialist area).
The post holder will be providing in-patient/ambulatory and outpatient areas with consistent high-quality clinical care, supporting trust management teams with ongoing clinical care provision and assist with effective patient flow through the trust.
We would consider a Band 8a ACP development post for the right candidate.
Main duties of the job
Function clinically at Tier 2 level and take part in the Tier 2 rota across all areas of Medicine including medical outliers not residing in base wards working a standard shift pattern.
Day-to-day clinical functions will include but are not limited to:
* Leading ward rounds for medical outliers on other base wards
* Supporting acute admission units, short stay units, acute medical wards, and SDEC
* Reviewing medical patients in ED who are awaiting a medical bed, to mitigate risk and optimise acute medical care
* Applying complex reasoning and critical thinking to a range of acute medical situations in order to make considered clinical judgements about diagnosis, care, treatment and escalation to other colleagues and services.
* Demonstrating leadership and innovation in a clinical context that can be unfamiliar, complex and volatile which requires solutions involving many interacting factors.
Has a pivotal role in the training and development of ACPs, Enhanced Nurse Practitioners and junior nursing and medical colleagues across Medicine.
Provide and assure evidence-based care to individual patient/service users and groups.
Continually review and develop own, service, and organisational effectiveness, lead service improvement and actively contribute to the body of knowledge through research.
Work within the HEE (2020) consultant level practice capability and impact framework.
About us
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
* Explore leadership within the NHS
* Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
* Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
* Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training, you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3, 5, and 7.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered first-level Nurse or Allied Health Professional
* Master's Degree (MSc/MA) in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Evidence of teaching, assessment, and supervision skills
* Competencies completed to a minimum of an ST3 Registrar
* Non-Medical Prescribing qualification at Level 7
* IR(ME)R
* Advanced life support
* Advanced ECG interpretation module
* Leadership qualification
Desirable
* Advanced life support instructor
Knowledge
Essential
* Acute Medicine (or equivalent) HEE competencies completed to a minimum of an ST3 Registrar
* Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within Medicine
* Ability to undertake clinics/ward rounds unsupervised or with minimum indirect supervision.
* Ability to travel across the Trust and adapt to a flexible working pattern including weekends, nights, and on calls
* In-depth knowledge of specialty pathologies, investigations, interpretation of investigations and management
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience in the field of Acute Medicine at an Advanced level
* Extensive experience of autonomous practice within professional scope.
* Leading or facilitating audit and quality improvement projects.
* Clinical research, participation, dissemination, and application.
* Knowledge and experience in clinical governance, risk management and quality assurance.
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
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