Employer Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Whiston Hospital
Town Prescot
Salary £53,755 - £60,504
Annex 21 Salary period Yearly
Closing 03/12/2024 08:00
Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint 0.37 WTE Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (or equivalent with Master’s degree in advanced clinical nursing practice and relevant paediatric experience) to join our existing team of Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners.
We are inviting applications from caring, enthusiastic, reliable, flexible, and motivated individuals with excellent clinical and managerial skills who are committed to ongoing learning and development and competent at ensuring children, young people and their families receive safe, high-quality, optimum care from staff who feel valued and an essential part of the team.
The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners play a lead role in the running of our established children and young people’s observation area (ChObs) accepting referrals directly from GP’s, Midwives and from the Paediatric Emergency Department. They are also responsible for providing support to sick and critically ill children and young people, supporting nursing and medical staff to care for these patients.
Successful candidates will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team taking a lead on co-ordination of dynamic testing which takes place within the department. They will assist in the promotion and delivery of key training and education, developing unit initiatives and service development.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of Children’s Barred Lists is required for this post.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (APNP) is competent at undertaking advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries using assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. By case managing patients, including independently ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing, the APNP will safely and effectively provide care for paediatric patients and their families admitted to the Paediatric wards.
The APNP, although clinical approximately 80% of the time, also has a senior clinical leadership role within the Directorate, striving to constantly improve nursing care on the wards through developing new initiatives, undertaking audit and an active role in education, mentorship and supervision.
The post holder will work closely with the Matron and Directorate Manager, Paediatrics and the senior paediatric team to ensure both the Directorate’s local governance agenda and the national agenda for nursing and children is fully met.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RSCN/RN Child
* Evidence of life-long learning
* Degree in Advanced Clinical Nursing, preferably Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practice
* APLS / PLS certified
* Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
* Master’s degree in advanced clinical nursing practice
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant years recent relevant experience in acute/community paediatrics.
* Able to recognise and implement appropriate management to a critically ill child aged from birth to 18 years
* Demonstrate ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
* Evidence of multidisciplinary / multi-agency working
* Evidence of change management experience
* Safeguarding Children experience and sound working knowledge of and ability to implement the Safeguarding and Child in Need agenda.
* Ability to develop fully staff potential through facilitating training, development and education initiatives.
* Working knowledge of all components of clinical governance, including risk management, audit, research, clinical standards, policies, protocols, education, training and human resources
* Clinical credibility and expert specialist knowledge of children’s and neonatal nursing
Skills
* Demonstrate ability to practise advanced clinical skills
* Clinical assessment, planning and management skills, able to case manage, including ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing (if completed NMP)
* Excellent organisational skills
* Quality/excellence focused
* Ability to work autonomously
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. You are part of an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
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