Job Title: Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Elective Orthopaedics
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £50,952-£57,349 per annum (if trainee post, will be a Band 7)
Closing Date: 10th October 2024
Interview Date: 22nd October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment, and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
* Accountable for clinical governance and leadership within the service.
* Expected to work across organisational and professional boundaries.
* Develop effective partnerships across George Eliot NHS Trust, The Foundation Group, and local healthcare systems.
* Implementing evidence-based practice is inherent throughout all aspects of care delivery and treatment.
Job responsibilities
* Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care.
* Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation, and diagnosis of patients within the area of work.
* Provide visible and accessible professional leadership and demonstrate expert knowledge and standards of clinical practice.
* Lead and develop a defined area of clinical practice within the designated area of practice, promoting interdisciplinary team and collaborative working practices.
* Act as an expert educational resource for clinical staff, patients, and carers by providing formal and informal education.
* Act as a supervisor/assessor to staff members and students as required, providing educational advice and support.
* Participate and where required lead or assist in research projects as required, disseminating and ensuring the utilisation of research results to change practice.
* Utilise research findings in the delivery of advanced clinical patient care, developing new ways of working.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
* Experience of working autonomously within ward/area/specialty of the specific role.
* Able to work with a diverse range of internal/external stakeholders.
* Evidence of ongoing CPD.
* Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments.
* Experience of delivering service improvement.
* Ability to clinically lead and influence others.
Desirable
* Evidence of research and audit.
* Publication in Healthcare journals.
* Proven leadership skills.
* Experience in delivering service improvement.
Qualifications and Professional Training
Essential
* Post graduate qualification in a specific specialty or equivalent experience.
* Masters Level (MSc) degree in Advance Clinical Practice.
* Recognised Advanced Health Assessment qualification (Minimum Masters level course).
* Professional Registration. NMC or HPCP registered.
* Independent prescriber.
* Advanced Life support qualification/provider.
Desirable
* Recognised Teaching & Mentoring qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Demonstrate clinical and procedural skills relevant to role/ward/area/specialty.
* Advanced knowledge of the range of presentations, diagnosis, and current management options within the specialty area.
* Able to use skills of history taking and physical assessment to direct patient care.
* Evidence of planning and organisational skills.
* Proven listening and counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situations and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
* Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and communication skills.
* Proficient IT and presentation skills.
* Ability to write reports and maintain accurate records.
* Ability to carry out and evaluate audit and research.
* Knowledge and use of governance and risk assessment to improve quality and service development.
Personal Qualities
Essential
* Excellent communication skills.
* Ability to perform in stressful and complex situations.
* Sound clinical reasoning and decision making.
* Flexible.
* Ability to inspire and lead a team.
* Problem solve.
Other
Essential
* Willingness to work weekends and evenings.
* Flexible and positive approach to work.
Employer details
Employer name: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address: George Eliot Hospital, College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ
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