North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Band 8b Senior ACP - 37.5 hours per week
We are looking to appoint dynamic and forward-thinking Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our already established team of senior RCEM Credentialed ACP's to work within the Emergency Department at the Cumberland Infirmary Carlisle and West Cumberland Hospital Whitehaven. We are looking for clinicians with commitment, flexibility, enthusiasm, excellent clinical skills, and who are keen to work as part of a hardworking and dedicated team.
The successful candidate will demonstrate safe, critical decision-making in the clinical decision-making process and will work collaboratively with Consultants and the multi-disciplinary team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedure. They will work to ensure wherever possible that junior medical staff are enabled to meet their training and development requirements.
Main duties of the job
Advanced clinical practice embodies the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families, and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people's experience and improve outcomes.
The post holder will practise independently as part of the senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner tier and will be supported by the consultant-led emergency medicine team. This clinically focused role will encompass the skills of overall departmental coordination, clinical floor management responsibilities, education, leadership, and mentorship. This will result in the post holder providing exemplary patient-centred and sound evidence-based care to patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems accessing the Emergency Department (ED) and seeing those patients with the greatest need.
The post holder will provide senior clinician support, second opinion advice (where there are intra-professional differences of opinion), and shop-floor support to junior clinicians during a span of duty within and across all areas of the Department and to other specialty teams over a 24-hour period, 7 days a week on a rotational basis.
The post holder will be a senior clinician with highly developed interpersonal and communication skills and clinical attributes, enabling him/her to provide expert/specialist clinical and professional support to other clinicians and staff.
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high-quality care every time':
1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well
As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
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Disclosure and Barring Service:
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Educated to Master's degree level in advanced Practice
* RCEM credentialed
* Proven Leadership skills
* Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
* Life support course instructor (at least one of ALS/EPALS/ATLS/ETC)
Knowledge
* Evidence of management skills gained through theory and/or practice
* IT literate
* Experience of mentoring and developing staff
* Current Professional registration
Skills
* Ability to problem solve, analyse, compare, and interpret complex information before making a decision
* Prioritise clinical workload and assess associated risks, taking appropriate action
* Demonstrate good organisational skills
* Has basic IT skills
* Ability to present information to individuals and groups as required using appropriate resources
* Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care
Behaviours
* Understand and overcome barriers to effective communication
Communication
* Communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, the public, and staff by using negotiation, persuasion, motivation, reassurance, facilitation, and influencing skills
* Understand and overcome barriers to communication
Analytical
* Identify and solve problems, analyse, compare, and interpret complex information before reaching a judgement and making a decision
* Prioritise problems, assess associated risks and take appropriate action
Planning
* Manages their clinical workload, prioritising as necessary and supporting the work of the team, adjusting according to changing clinical situations
* Works with the consultants and junior doctors in ensuring awareness of junior doctor numbers, reporting appropriately where deficits are noted
* Liaise with consultants/senior team members in organising work
Physical Skills
* Clinical examinations and assessment skills
* X-Ray interpretation
* Has physical skills to ensure accuracy and dexterity required for a number of clinical procedures i.e. ABG's, IVIs, chest drains, Catheters
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