Job summary
Are you up to the challenge of leading an established team of highly skilled ACCP's in a large demanding and dynamic critical care department? If so, we are seeking to appoint a Lead ACCP at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham to manage and guide our experienced teams. We are looking for an ACCP with at least four years post qualification experience, they must be affiliated with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM), be able to function in a highly demanding environment and have the ability to lead experienced ACCPs whilst nurturing numerous trainees at various stages of training. The successful candidate must be able to work alongside the other Lead ACCP at UHB to deliver a strategy for the onward development of the ACCP service at the Trust.
Main duties of the job
If Successful you will spend a proportion of your time in your clinical role on the intensive care unit, working alongside your team, as well as nursing and medical staff to provide high quality critical care to patients from a wide variety of specialities in a tertiary critical care department. You will undertake and teach clinical skills and ensure high standards are maintained whilst delivering care to critically ill patients. In your non-clinical time, among other duties, you will spend time managing your team as well as collaboratively developing an ACCP strategy, liaising with the senior nursing and management teams and ensuring high standards are maintained in critical care. This demanding role requires you to be full time, and there will be some unsocial hour working. This Lead ACCP role is mainly based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital but may require some cross site working at other hospitals in the Trust and may require cross cover if the other Lead in the Trust is not available.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Professional Healthcare Registration with a UK Regulatory Body ( NMC / HCPC / GphC)
- * Post Graduate Qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience.
- * MSc or Level 7 equivalent portfolio of 180 CATs (Must cover all 4 Pillars of advanced clinical practice) -- Portfolio must include evidence of health assessment module at Level 7.
- * Non -- Medical Prescribing Course -- where applicable to registration
- * Advanced Life Support Qualification
- * Must be an Associate ACCP member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM).
Experience
Essential
- * Substantial autonomous practice working as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner in a multi professional practice setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- * Evidence of on-going CPD relevant to the role / professional regulation
- * Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) / HCPC / regulatory standards for student supervision and assessment.
- * Experience in developing and implementing governance/ safety frameworks to support service and quality delivery, improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ patient and carer feedback and National policy.
- * Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
- * Experience resource manager with experience in staff / performance & management and financial control mechanisms.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * Professional Healthcare Registration with a UK Regulatory Body ( NMC / HCPC / GphC)
- * Post Graduate Qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience.
- * MSc or Level 7 equivalent portfolio of 180 CATs (Must cover all 4 Pillars of advanced clinical practice) -- Portfolio must include evidence of health assessment module at Level 7.
- * Non -- Medical Prescribing Course -- where applicable to registration
- * Advanced Life Support Qualification
- * Must be an Associate ACCP member of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (FICM).
Experience
Essential
- * Substantial autonomous practice working as an Advanced Critical Care Practitioner in a multi professional practice setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- * Evidence of on-going CPD relevant to the role / professional regulation
- * Meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) / HCPC / regulatory standards for student supervision and assessment.
- * Experience in developing and implementing governance/ safety frameworks to support service and quality delivery, improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ patient and carer feedback and National policy.
- * Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
- * Experience resource manager with experience in staff / performance & management and financial control mechanisms.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
