Main area: Urgent and Emergency Care
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (12.5 hour shifts, 1 weekend per month)
Job ref: 357-GR-1774-24
Employer: United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Grantham Town
Salary: £46,148 - £60,504 per annum (dependant on skills and experience)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Trainee / Advanced Clinical Practitioner (UEC) Band 7 - 8A
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do:
* Patient-centred: Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
* Safety: Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
* Excellence: Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
* Compassion: Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
* Respect: Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice, and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
Job overview
Starting May 2025
This role will be dependant on skills and experience but will be a band 8a for a qualified ACP. A band 7 Clinical Practitioner will be considered if history taking is completed at M Level.
Main duties of the job:
* To work as an autonomous practitioner across professional boundaries and as part of a multi-professional team, with support from the Medical and ED Consultants.
* To work as part of the clinical team in delivering high-quality emergency care and treatments.
* To provide initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care for patients within the UTC, Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit, and the Assessment Units.
* To provide initial history taking and clinical assessment skills for the patients presenting to Emergency Care.
* To work collaboratively with the emergency medical team and the medical teams to meet the needs of the patients presented within the Emergency Care.
* The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the decision-making process with support from both the ED and medical consultants.
* To undertake Advanced Level Practice in line with Department of Health position statement for Advanced level Nursing.
* Work to the 4 pillars of advanced practice.
Person specification
Qualifications:
* 1st level qualified nurse or allied health professional
* Current registration with the NMC / HCPC or equivalent professional body
* MSc degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or equivalent)
* Registered independent prescriber
* Advanced Life Support provider
* Teaching Qualification
* EPALS provider
* ATLS / ETC provider
Previous Experience:
* Completed portfolio of supervised practice in advanced clinical practice.
* Contemporary clinical experience of urgent and emergency care.
* Participating in a multi-professional team.
* Involvement in service improvement.
* Implementation of best practice.
* Clinical mentor, appraiser, or supervisor.
* Experience in a leadership role.
Evidence of Particular: Knowledge; Skills; Aptitudes:
* Must be able to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework: Patient Centred, Safety, Compassion, Respect, and Excellence.
Specific requirements:
* Able to present and receive complex information to a multi-professional team.
* Able to work independently and within a team.
* Able to work with undifferentiated and undiagnosed healthcare problems.
* Willingness to adapt to departmental and patient need.
* Self-motivated.
* Efficient time and deadline management.
* Ability to support colleagues, patients, and relatives in sometimes distressing circumstances.
ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge, and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer.
Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
No DBS fees to pay: Successful candidates will have DBS applications applied for & paid by ULTH where applicable. There is no requirement to reimburse ULTH for this cost.
We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community.
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