An existing opportunity has arisen for a Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner (pACP) to join our existing team to assist in providing acute nursing care to our patients who attend the Paediatric Emergency Department.
You will need to have a high level of Paediatric experience in an acute care setting and have sound clinical knowledge, whilst also demonstrating managerial and leadership qualities and abilities.
In order to support our seven-day medicine redesign programme and Ambulatory Care, you will be required to work weekends and Bank Holidays.
You should have the ability to assess, diagnose and develop comprehensive management plans for paediatric patients under our care. Candidates are advised to review the personal specification for the essential qualifications for the role.
The successful candidate will need to be well organised, flexible and reliable with excellent communication and inter-professional skills. They will also need to be a team player and work alongside colleagues from different professional backgrounds.
The post holder will be an integral part of the ED Paediatric clinical team, demonstrating advanced autonomous clinical practice skills within the Paediatric Emergency Department.
The role is predominantly clinical, and the post holder will be expected to see the full breadth of undifferentiated paediatric emergency department presentations aged 16 and under. There will also be some specific patient groups up to age 18.
You will be the lead paediatric ACP, working alongside two trainee pACPs. You will be supported by a team of 18 ED consultants, of which 3 have a paediatric specialist interest.
The post will involve evening and weekend work. Acting within your professional boundaries, you will demonstrate safe clinical decision-making skills and will manage your own caseload. This will include initial history taking, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for all undifferentiated patients that present at the Emergency Department.
The ACP will participate in educational sessions, clinical supervision, research, and quality and service improvements, ensuring high quality, effective management and care of patients.
You will have your own clinical patient workload. You should be able to work at least at the level of an ST1 EM junior doctor.
You will therefore be expected to:
1. Work semi-autonomously.
2. Take succinct histories and examine all body systems.
3. Formulate a logical differential and plan.
4. Order appropriate investigations.
5. Present cases succinctly and efficiently.
6. Seek advice appropriate for your level of competency and always before discharging a patient.
7. Carry out a range of skills including but not limited to cannulation, blood gases, catheterisation, plastering.
8. Assess patients in the resuscitation area under direct supervision of a senior doctor.
9. Multi-task looking after several patients at one time.
10. Prescribe medication across the whole spectrum of presentations.
11. See an appropriate number of patients each shift.
12. Communicate your decisions in writing and verbally to relevant staff.
13. Work in a multi-disciplinary environment.
You will be allocated 4 hours on average per week to non-clinical activity. You will need to keep a log of your non-clinical activity. This activity will include:
1. Maintaining a RCEM portfolio.
2. Personal reflections on patients seen.
3. Personal CPD to stay up to date.
4. Audit activity.
5. Engaging in mandatory training.
6. Teaching other groups including trainee ACPs and medical students.
7. Meeting regularly with your clinical supervisor.
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