Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust
Town Liverpool
Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum, pro rata
Salary period Yearly
Closing 06/04/2025 23:59
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Spines (AHP/Nursing)
Band 8a
Job overview
As part of the Cheshire and Merseyside provider programme, an exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced AHP’s or Nurses to develop and work in our new, citywide, Non-medical led Spinal Service at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group.
You will undertake a significant clinical spinal caseload to an advanced professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience and develop an extended scope of practice beyond your primary profession.
Delivered across the Aintree and Royal Liverpool sites, the posts are permanent, with flexibility for full or part time, extended scope roles.
If you would like to be part of this exciting journey; enjoy problem solving but don’t yet have all the requisite knowledge and experience, training/apprenticeship MSc ACP posts will be considered.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for:
* Taking a lead role in the advanced clinical assessment and treatment of a diverse and undetermined caseload of spinal patients, who may have highly complex and/or chronic presentations.
* Determining clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated.
* Provide expertise for developing and enhancing the newly established service, supporting the redesign of patient referrals from secondary to tertiary care.
* Preventing unnecessary admissions from AED.
* In reaching to meet the specific needs of this patient cohort from the AED and in-patient wards.
* Work closely with the medical and surgical teams to provide a specialist spinal management service.
* Triaging referrals either independently or with medical colleagues and make onward referrals.
* Supporting early discharge from hospital; working closely with The Walton Centre, Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, community partners and our Therapy outpatient services.
The above list is not exhaustive. This is a new and developing role - we would welcome applicants who can bring their own experience, ideas and innovation to make this a success.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To improve the experience and outcomes of care for patients by taking the lead in investigations and treatments prescribed.
2. To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that the patients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.
3. To provide social, emotional and psychological support for patients from referral and throughout their treatment.
4. To deliver expert specialist evidence-based care including: development, assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidence-based care for a defined caseload.
5. To make appropriate referral to consultants/other specialist/members of the multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.
6. To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally and develop strategies to address identified issues.
Key responsibilities
Clinical.
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.
Management and Quality.
11. Act as a change agent for the development of the service.
12. Assisting in the audit and data collection required for developing evidence-based services.
13. To provide verbal and written reports to appropriate managers and clinical leads.
14. To monitor the effectiveness of the service by continuous audit.
15. To ensure that equipment is maintained and serviced as required.
16. To develop protocols, documentation, standards and guidelines to enable best practice for the care of patients in the identified/specified area.
17. To be involved in complaints handling according to the Trust’s Complaints Procedure.
18. To establish a clear focus, vision and direction for the service, within the Care Group.
19. To ensure effective and efficient use of financial resources, contributing to increasing the efficiency and controlling cost within the departmental budget. Making recommendations regarding supplies and purchasing of equipment.
Communication and Liaison
20. To promote effective communication within the hospital and to the patient and/or their relatives.
21. Act as a point of liaison between all hospital departments involved in the patient’s journey.
22. Act as a source of specialist information for clinicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
23. Liaise with other departments/ Trusts regarding services provided and current practices to develop best evidence-based practice.
24. To be skilled to impart distressing information with respect and empathy.
25. To ensure that all patient records are maintained contemporaneously.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration.
* Masters Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline.
* Completion of education or mentorship qualification or equivalent.
* Prescriber.
Experience
* Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality.
* Evidence of effective management.
* Evidence of effective leadership skills.
* Evidence of staff development.
* Evidence of change management.
* Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments.
* Evidence of participation in audit and research.
Knowledge
* Understanding and application of healthcare governance.
* The identified specialist field of clinical practice.
Skills
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care.
* Ability to work flexibly across the service to support other Clinical staff and Therapies Management team on other specific initiatives and developments as required.
* Basic IT skills, including e-mail 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 adopting the Trust values and behaviours.
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.
Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18th birthday.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve 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. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.
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. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.
Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.
All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.
As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.
If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Mrs Laura Groom Job title Consultant Physiotherapist Spines (AED/Inpatients) Email address laura.groom@liverpoolft.nhs.uk Telephone number 07837474368
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