Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Children's Services
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: Children's and Young People
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service and nights)
Job ref: 361-6878888
Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 05/02/2025
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
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 emphasises 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 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
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve.
When you apply...
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date in certain circumstances. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.
All correspondence relating to vacancies will be via the e-mail address you have provided on your application form.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Lizzie Franklin-Jones
Job title: Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality for CYP
Email address: elizabeth.franklinjones@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07974004767
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