Main area: Respiratory
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Permanent (Weekend and Evening shifts required)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day cover)
Job ref: 287-AMED-273-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/12/2024 23:59
Advanced Clinical Practitioner Respiratory
Band 8a
Job overview
We are delighted to offer an opportunity to join the ventilation service at Aintree University Hospital. The ventilation ward is planning to add 3 ACPs to its team as part of an increase in its capability and establishment to 12 beds. The Ventilation Inpatient Centre is about to undergo a full rebuild and will be housed in a new state of the art facility expected to open Mid 2025. The unit has 4 dedicated weaning beds and 8 other beds mainly for acute non-invasive use, though 2 are available to back up the long-term non-invasive patients and occasionally for elective ventilation setup.
Aintree, as part of LUFHT, is the host of the regional ventilation service and offers long-term NIV to circa 1150 patients and 30 long-term trachy-ventilation patients. Aintree is also the regional weaning service. The medical team oversees Southport’s North West Spinal Injury Centre (NWSIC), 9 high dependency ventilation beds, via a service level agreement, these posts will not have responsibility there.
The ACP role is primarily to work alongside the unit medical consultants to oversee and deliver care with the wards rounds and follow on each day. The VIC values true multidisciplinary work and the successful applicants would work in a collaborative way with the nurses, specialist physiotherapy team and others, in addition to the respiratory consultants.
Main duties of the job
The role will require 7 days working, it is envisaged this would be 8am-8pm weekdays and 9am-5pm weekends providing prospective cover for each other and helping ensure continuity of care. The role will be ward-based but there will be a role contributing to outreach and opportunity to contribute to the ventilation outpatient work. While the unit's work is focused on ventilation, the ACPs will be involved in delivering the whole of medical care to patients.
The positions are open to those trained as ACP’s or who are taking master’s level training or who wish to. Respiratory experience, particularly of ventilation, would be particularly valued. The posts are open to those already trained or those with suitable experience who wish to undertake further training and qualifications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To maintain personal accountability for professional and ethical actions and ensure compliance with the standards of professional conduct issued by the relevant regulatory body.
2. To maintain and develop a specialist service for patients within the caseload, ensuring that the treatment and follow-up of this group of patients is delivered in a timely manner.
3. To provide and maintain a diagnostic service for the Trust. Ensure clinician-led clinics provide for both diagnoses and reporting of subsequent results for identified patients.
4. To provide teaching as an in-house measure to all medical and clinical staff, not only within the Care Group but also from other services.
5. To provide a clinician-led clinic service to patients.
6. To plan and administer treatment to patients as appropriate and ensure handover of this treatment to community services as necessary.
7. To provide expert care, advice and support for patients and their relatives/carers and ensure that advice and point of contact is available throughout the patient’s journey.
8. To refer on to other agencies as appropriate.
9. To operate as clinical specialist and expert practitioner in issues relating to the identified area of care. To direct and delegate care based on accurate assessment and evaluation.
10. To take consent for investigative procedures, manipulate equipment and perform advanced clinical skills.
11. The post holder will be expected to work clinical shifts in a ward environment if necessary.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration.
* MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) or started the MSc ACP pathway/programme and committed to completing within an agreed time frame.
* Teaching and assessing qualification.
* Prescriber.
* Evidence of participation in audit and research.
Experience
* Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality.
* Evidence of effective management.
* Evidence of effective leadership skills.
* Evidence of staff development and can demonstrate knowledge regarding provision and development of education programmes.
* Evidence of change management.
* Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments.
Knowledge
* Understanding and application of healthcare governance.
* Has an up-to-date Advanced Clinical Practice portfolio.
Skills
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care.
* Basic IT skills, including email and word processing.
Other
* Supportive of colleagues.
* Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate the team.
* High level of personal and professional credibility.
* Act as role model for staff.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
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