Job summary
Due to career progression of the current post holder, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to join the stroke ACP team. We currently have a vacancy for either a trainee or qualified stroke ACP.
The ideal candidate will be an autonomous practitioner, who will be responsible for the rapid assessment of patients presenting to the emergency department with stroke symptoms. They will also be required to request appropriate investigations and administer emergency treatments to patients presenting to hospital with stroke symptoms with support from the Stroke Consultant.
The Acute Stroke Service enables a seamless and high quality service, which is in line with stroke guidelines and targets, aims to provide excellence care for our patients. Aimingto reduce long-term disability, reduce mortality and provide comprehensive treatments as well as a holistic service to all patients.
Previous experience within the stroke speciality would be advantageous but is not essential, as full training will be provided to the successful candidate.
Informal visits are encouraged.
Main duties of the job
Triage all stroke referrals.
Identify patients eligible for reperfusion therapies and facilitate the patients' access to these treatments/interventions.Perform specialist stroke assessments such as a National Institute of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS] and dysphagia assessments.
Work autonomously formulating clinical management plans in line with current guidelines in a patient-centred manner.
Participate in active research trials and audit programmes.
Provide specialist stroke training to members of the stroke MDT and other clinical specialities.
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
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Person Specification
Previous Experience
Essential
1. Substantial post registration relevant experience
Desirable
2. Management and leadership experience
3. Completed portfolio of supervised practice in stroke
Knowledge/skills/aptitudes
Essential
4. Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
5. Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
Qualifications
Essential
6. Current Professional registration within area of practice
7. NIHSS qualification
8. Post registration qualification or training relevant to speciality [Degree]
9. MSc in advanced clinical practice
10. Registered Independent Non-Medical Prescriber ALS Provider
11. Dysphagia Assessment Skills
12. Evidence of teaching, supervision & assessment skills
Desirable
13. Mentor/assessor qualification
14. Instructor on ALS
Specific Requirements
Essential
15. Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned in a timely manner.
16. Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines
17. Able to work with undifferentiated and undiagnosed healthcare problems.
18. Participation in research or audit projects
19. Active involvement in departmental operational development
20. Ability to schedule academic workload and work commitments
21. Able to identify learning opportunities
22. Able to organise own learning and development
23. Ability to provide education, complete research and audit
24. Able to undertake required clinical duties/procedures
25. Ability to manoeuvre patients and perform clinical examinations as required
26. Ability to undertake computer and other equipment skills