Employer: Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Alder Hey Children's NHS Trust
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/03/2025 23:59
Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites. In collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building, newly relocated and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. Our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trust's values and behaviours. At Alder Hey, we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
* Great flexible working opportunities
* Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Are you an Anaesthetic Practitioner looking for a new challenge? Do you want to expand your skills in Paediatrics? Are you tired of working nights, weekends, and on calls? If so, then come and join the land of remarkable people! As a world leader in healthcare and research, we have something amazing – Alder Hey in the park, a hospital for children, designed and inspired by children.
We have already earned our place as one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. Trust-wide, we treat 250,000 young patients a year and safely perform over 13,000 surgical procedures. Our catchment area has a population of over 7 million, stretching from Cumbria, through Lancashire, Merseyside, most of Cheshire, parts of Shropshire, North Wales, and the Isle of Man.
Children from virtually every part of the UK, and also from around the world, visit Alder Hey for specialist treatment. As a result, we are recognised as a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal, and brain disease and have been designated as a national centre for craniofacial surgery and epilepsy surgery by the Department of Health.
Main duties of the job
1. Perform comprehensive assessment of patient care needs.
2. Plan, implement, and evaluate care according to changing health care needs.
3. Provide supervision of junior staff and support to other team members.
4. Collect and evaluate report information and maintain accurate patient records to enable effective care delivery.
5. Involve the multidisciplinary team and, where possible, patients, carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
6. Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and the multidisciplinary care team.
7. Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
8. Seek/act on advice from a senior team member or relevant others, as appropriate.
9. Develop own skills and knowledge and assist in the development of others.
10. Act as a mentor/coach and assessor to pre- and post-registration learners.
11. Lead responsibly for a specific function or area of knowledge/skills within the team (e.g., link person, infection control, tissue viability, or other).
12. Ensure compliance with mandatory training and professional practice requirements.
13. Ensure compliance with policies and procedures and clinical guidelines for self and others.
14. Assist in the monitoring of standards of care and contribute to improvements through benchmarking, audit, and research trials, as required.
15. Support people's equality and diversity.
16. Communicate effectively and share best practices with the multidisciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites. We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year. We particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details outlining this role.
Person specification
* HCPC Registered ODP or RN with Anaesthetic qualification
* Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including IT literacy
* Paediatric Experience
We reserve the right to close vacancies without notice when we have received a sufficient number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply regularly, as we will contact you using this regarding your application. All candidates will be notified via email whether or not they have been shortlisted.
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are committed to creating a well-managed, flexible working environment that supports staff and promotes their welfare and development. We actively promote equality and diversity and operate a Zero Tolerance policy to aggression, violence, bullying, and harassment.
Please declare within the supporting information if artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in your application.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Name: Zara Barnbrock
Job title: Clinical Manager - Education & Development
Email address: Zara.Barnbrock@alderhey.nhs.uk
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