Advanced Clinical Practitioner - ALERT team

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 December 2024

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the ALERT Team and provide trust wide support to all clinical areas in the management of the deteriorating patient.

We are seeking knowledgeable, innovative and enthusiastic acute care nurses who are interested in advanced clinical assessment and in improving patient safety to all patients at risk of deterioration. You will be specifically involved in implementing the recommendations within the NICE CG50 guidance across the whole trust.

Under the leadership of the Lead Nurses, you will work with a team of senior nurses to provide a 24-hour service. This will include advanced clinical assessment of patients from the cardiothoracic specialty as well as supporting patients who have been discharged from Critical Care and those requiring timely admission to Critical Care. The post holders will be required to undertake 12 hour shifts equally across both days and nights.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioners take an active role in educating and supporting members of the multidisciplinary team through formal and informal educational opportunities as well as seeking to further their own professional development. Experience of teaching and educational delivery would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

This advanced level of practice is benchmarked against the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice (2017) which encompasses four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, management, education & research. You will be required to keep a portfolio to evidence core capabilities. You should be educated to a minimum of a degree level and possess Advanced Skills in Clinical Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing qualifications to Master's Level. ALS qualifications are also desirable.

You should have extensive experience at Band 6/7 in an acute care setting, such as High Dependency, CCU, or Critical Care. You'll need to work autonomously, demonstrating strong initiative, along with excellent communication, clinical, and organisational skills.

If you do not hold the required essential courses but have extensive experience as above, a band 6 trainee ACP position may be considered.

Contact details for this vacancy are Jenny Pemberton 01223 638844 or bleep 787 or Kerry Gorman 01223 638127

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

18 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2425-2-ANP987

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or Clinical Practitioner
Educated to degree level/ diploma equivalent
Advanced Clinical Assessment module or equivalent at Masters Level.
Non-Medical Prescribing qualification.
ALS certification or willingness to undertake within 6 month of post
Teaching and assessing qualification

Desirable

MSc in Advanced Practice

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience within an acute cardiothoracic setting at minimum of Band 6 level.
Experience of caring for patients requiring Level 2 / 3 care
Able to communicate complex information to colleagues, patients and relatives
Experience of managing a team
Evidence of continued professional development
Effectively co-ordinates own workload
Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Flexible approach to working hours and practices to meet changing service demand
Treat hospital information confidentially
Ability to supervise and develop staff
Ability to enable and empower others
The post holder needs to have a reasonable degree of physical fitness to undertake this job. This is a physically demanding post involving prolonged periods of walking and standing. The post holder may be required to undertake short periods of intense physical activities eg. manual handling, CPR.
Ability to deal with complex and emotional situations
Ability to deal with poor performance issues

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Treat hospital information confidentially
Ability to supervise and develop staff

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse or Clinical Practitioner
Educated to degree level/ diploma equivalent
Advanced Clinical Assessment module or equivalent at Masters Level.
Non-Medical Prescribing qualification.
ALS certification or willingness to undertake within 6 month of post
Teaching and assessing qualification

Desirable

MSc in Advanced Practice

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience within an acute cardiothoracic setting at minimum of Band 6 level.
Experience of caring for patients requiring Level 2 / 3 care
Able to communicate complex information to colleagues, patients and relatives
Experience of managing a team
Evidence of continued professional development
Effectively co-ordinates own workload
Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
Flexible approach to working hours and practices to meet changing service demand
Treat hospital information confidentially
Ability to supervise and develop staff
Ability to enable and empower others
The post holder needs to have a reasonable degree of physical fitness to undertake this job. This is a physically demanding post involving prolonged periods of walking and standing. The post holder may be required to undertake short periods of intense physical activities eg. manual handling, CPR.
Ability to deal with complex and emotional situations
Ability to deal with poor performance issues

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Treat hospital information confidentially
Ability to supervise and develop staff

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.