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Advanced Critical Care Practitioner, Bristol
Client:
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Bristol, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
9ff055350798
Job Views:
4
Posted:
13.02.2025
Expiry Date:
30.03.2025
Job Description:
As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
The SoNAR Team is the neonatal transport service covering the South West Neonatal Network (ODN). This part of the region has a birth rate of over 45,000 deliveries per year. The team runs 24 hours a day and undertakes approximately 1000 journeys per year. The transport team is able to undertake cooling, delivery of Nitric Oxide and HFOV during transfer. The service covers both acute transfers and repatriations between the 12 neonatal units in the region as well as acute transfers to the Bristol Children’s Hospital. The SoNAR team is hosted by UH Bristol and Weston NHS Trust and is based within St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol.
We are seeking to appoint an experienced, enthusiastic paramedic with advanced neonatal critical care transport skills and experience to join our team.
The successful candidate would be expected to be proficient and competent at delivering the vast majority of transfers on their own with consultant support, although where necessary a consultant may also attend the transfer.
Knowledge and skills gained during this placement would include effective transport triage, call conferencing, prioritisation of journeys, appropriate team composition, enhanced patient assessment, management of the critically ill child during transfer and other transport-related clinical skills. They would be expected to have good communication skills in order to facilitate good handover of information between units.
This is a position on the SoNAR (Southwest Neonatal Advice and Retrieval) Team for a skilled and motivated paramedic with substantial experience working at an advanced level in neonatal critical care transport.
The post holder would be expected to undertake critical care transports and repatriations of neonatal patients between the hospitals in the Southwest Neonatal Operational Delivery Network. These transports may on occasions be undertaken autonomously or when necessary with consultant support.
The post holder will exercise complex levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in clinical care demonstrated through the Trust competency framework. They will provide specialist expertise and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, treatment and management of the client group. They will monitor and improve standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and by the provision of skilled professional leadership. They will participate in clinical governance within the service by undertaking audit and research as part of the MDT within the specialist field. They will demonstrate an ongoing alignment with the four foundational pillars of advanced clinical practice.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
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