Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree Hospital
Town: Fazakerley
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/12/2024 23:59
Advanced Clinical Practitioner Heart Failure Virtual Ward
Band 8a
Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our Integrated Heart Failure Service at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust. We are looking for an ACP to support our Virtual Ward Urgent Response Service.
The service will operate 7 days per week from 8 am till 8 pm and requires flexibility working within an evolving proactive, dynamic and committed multidisciplinary Heart Failure Team.
Using Telemedicine, the candidate will have clinical oversight and, in conjunction with Consultants, responsibility for patients who are being managed in their own homes. This will involve working with external agencies and technologies to provide an enhanced Hospital at Home and Early Supported Discharge service for patients with Heart Failure.
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate strong clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills, be an effective leader, and have the ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
Main Duties of the Job
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 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, and evaluating programmes of evidence-based care for a defined caseload.
5. To make appropriate referrals to consultants/other specialists/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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration.
* MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) or started the MSc ACP pathway/programme and committed to completing within an agreed timeframe.
* Teaching and assessing qualification.
* Prescriber.
* Evidence of participation in audit and research.
Experience
* Demonstrable relevant experience within the specialty.
* Evidence of effective management.
* Evidence of effective leadership skills.
* Evidence of staff development and can demonstrate knowledge regarding the provision and development of education programmes.
* Evidence of change management.
* Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments.
Knowledge
* Understanding and application of healthcare governance.
* Has an up-to-date Advanced Clinical Practice portfolio.
Skills
* Committed to delivering high standards of patient care.
* 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 a role model for staff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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