A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
An existing opportunity has arisen for a qualified 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 and 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.
It is highly recommended that you visit the department pre-interview.
Interviews: Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will participate in a clinical simulation assessment on the day of interview along with other assessment tasks,
Interview date to be confirmed.
The post holder will be an integral part of the ED Paediatric clinical team, demonstratingadvanced autonomous clinical practiceskills 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 age 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 their own caseload. This will include initial history taking, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care for all undifferentiatedpatients that present at the Emergency Department.
The ACP will participate in educational sessions, clinical supervision, research, quality and service improvements, ensuring high quality, effective management and care of patients.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
You will have your own clinical patient workload. You should be able to work at least at the level of an ST3 EM junior doctor.
You will therefore be expected to:
• Work semi-autonomously.
• Take succinct histories and examine all body systems.
• Formulate a logical differential and plan.
• Order appropriate investigations.
• Present cases succinctly and efficiently
• Seek advice appropriate for your level of competency and always before discharging a patient.
• Carry out a range of skills including but not limited to cannulation, blood gases, catheterisation, plastering.
• Assess patients in the resuscitation area under direct supervision of a senior doctor.
• Multi-task looking after several patients at one time.
• Prescribe medication across the whole spectrum of presentations.
• See an appropriate number of patients each shift.
• Communicate your decisions in writing and verbally to relevant staff.
• 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 nonclinical activity. This activity will include:
• Maintaining a RCEM portfolio.
• Personal reflections on patients seen.
• Personal CPD to stay up to date.
• Audit activity.
• Engaging in mandatory training
• Teaching other groups including trainee ACPs and medical students
• Meeting regularly with your clinical supervisor
This advert closes on Monday 10 Mar 2025
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