Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Children's Services
We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Children's Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be practicing autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within Children's Emergency Department and assessment area (CAU). This fantastic standalone CED/CAU has 4 majors bays, 2 HDU bays, 2 resus bays, with a co-located CAU and decision unit.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
This role encompasses the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout acute services.
You will support a new way of working that emphasizes a more efficient and patient-focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across a service area.
You will deliver an 80% clinical component to your role and 20% related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, self-development, development of the service, and research.
You will be working in partnership with our PEM and paediatric doctors.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide, and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
* Relevant registered - professional qualification - RSCN
* MSc in advanced practice
* Clinical supervision training and experience
* Advanced Practice - Advanced non-medical prescribing
* Advanced Paediatric Life Support
* NMC's 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors' accreditations.
* Recognised teaching qualification
* Recognised leadership qualification
* ALS/APLS Instructor
Previous Experience
* Significant acute care experience, including successful completion at trainee Advanced Practitioner level or equivalent
* Established Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner, relevant experience of service transformation.
* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
* Evidence of ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback
* Implementation of audit/research recommendations
* Evidence of audits undertaken and outcomes
* Evidence of presentations at local/national levels
* Experience in recruitment and retention matters, staff appraisal, and performance management
* Commitment to the ongoing implementation of the Trust nursing and midwifery strategy.
* In-depth understanding of quality issues including clinical governance
* Evidence of involvement with primary research
Skills/Knowledge
* Excellent communication skills: interpersonal, written, and verbal
* Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments, and injuries
* Competent to 'lead' paediatric resuscitation APLS / EPALS standard
* Competent in managing acutely unwell children and young people (CYP)
* Experience of managing complex safeguarding cases
* Make independent clinical decisions
* Experience of chronic disease management
* Confidence to adapt to an evolving and changing service.
* Proven leadership skills, with a vision to work with others
* Local and national health policy
* Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
* Change management experience and/or qualification
* Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality for CYP
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