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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate and enthusiastic nurse to join a newly created Acute Response Team at North Bristol NHS Trust. This team will deliver safe, effective, and timely clinical intervention to adult inpatients who are acutely unwell or at risk of deterioration.
This nurse led team will act with a high degree of autonomy to support high quality care for acutely unwell adult inpatients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Practitioners in this team will respond to acute deterioration at an early stage. They will provide an advanced clinical assessment and initiate investigation and clinical intervention to avert further deterioration. They will work in close collaboration with the parent specialty and ward teams to deliver high quality care and will support education of ward staff across the multi-disciplinary team. They will provide critical care knowledge and skills including routinely reviewing ICU discharges, using non-invasive ventilation, CPAP and High Flow Nasal Oxygen, and supporting emergency intubations occurring outside the ICU.
They will be the effectors of Martha’s Rule within the Trust, responding to patients’ and relatives’ concerns with compassion and sincerity, offering rapid clinical review as required. They will undertake audit and evaluation of their workload and engage actively with clinical governance to ensure patient safety and high-quality outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Enhanced practitioners will work with a high degree of autonomy. They will work with the support and education of the Advanced Clinical Practitioners but will be able to undertake high quality clinical assessment for patients across a range of specialties and effect early intervention in response to clinical deterioration. This is an exciting opportunity to lead, shape and develop a new service to drive improved care for acutely unwell patients in North Bristol NHS Trust.
Working for our organisation
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role will involve working as part of a team, the practitioner will use autonomous practice, make complex decisions and provide high quality care for patients who are acutely unwell.
Using their expertise and decision-making skills the practitioner will need to use clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
The practitioner will support the development of the workforce, work as a role model with the trust values, demonstrating a person-centred approach.
The practitioner will demonstrate team leadership, resilience, and determination, manage situations that are complex or unpredictable. Pro-actively initiating and developing effective relationships, working closely with the lead practitioners within the team.
Person specification
Education
* Professional registration
* PACR
* PADRAP
* Non Medical Prescribing
Skills
* Evidence of ongoing professional development relevant to acute / critical care
* Experience of management of a deteriorating patient
Work Experience
* Grounded knowledge of the deteriorating patient across a range of settings
* Extensive post registration and current senior experience in acute care
If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
Please note that North Bristol NHS Trust does not reimburse travel expenses relating to interview attendance.
If you feel you meet the requirements of the Disability Act / Two Ticks scheme and require further support/advice, please contact us on tel 0117 414 1151.
North Bristol NHS Trust are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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