Job summary
Join Our Team as an Advanced Practitioner - Lead, Inspire, Excel!
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? We are looking for an exceptional Advanced Practitioner to join our dynamic team in the Consultant-led ED. In this role, you will practice independently, embodying the four pillars of Advanced Practice, and deliver exemplary patient-centered and evidence-based care to those with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
As a key member of our team, you will:
- Coordinate a multidisciplinary team across different areas of the department.
- Manage the clinical floor with confidence and expertise.
- Provide education and mentorship to colleagues, guiding the next generation of clinicians.
- Offer senior clinician support and second opinions, ensuring high-quality care.
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills to support and inspire your colleagues.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence and the drive to lead by example, we want to hear from you. Join us and be a role model in elevating the standard of care within our UEC division.
Apply today and make a difference!
Main duties of the job
- Clinical - demonstrate critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and their own limits of competence and Scope of Practice.
- Management and Leadership -able to role model effective leadership behaviours, show resilience and manage effective governance strategies, which support the agenda for change within the Trust.
- Education and Training - able to identify, support and develop learning interventions for both self and team members.
- Audit and Research- to look at areas for quality improvements to care, use audit processes and both formal and informal research methods to improve service delivery
- Additional areas:
- Financial - ensure considered cost appraisal when requesting or referring for investigations, ordering stores or equipment, booking training/courses or when involved in service development and recruitment activities.
About us
We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusivity within our workforce and warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on encouraging those from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as candidates from our local area.
As part of our commitment to supporting our employees we offer a range of benefits including:
- Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days and increasing to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, in addition to the national Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);
- Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme:
- Flexible working opportunities;
- Enhanced hourly rates for unsociable hours e.g. night shifts, weekends, bank holidays;
- Opportunities for career development and training to help you progress in your role;
- Wellbeing support and activities to promote a healthy work environment;
- Access to our in-house physiotherapy service;
- On-site canteens offering subsidised meals;
- Subsidised staff parking (currently free);
- Free Stagecoach Bus Travel to and from work within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where employees feel valued and empowered to excel in their roles. Join us and become part of a team dedicated to making a positive difference in our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role holder will be required to work across these four pillars of practice, with a view to spending their time as indicated below. This will be governed by the use of Job Planning processes and will be the responsibility of the role holder in cooperation with the Clinical Lead and roster coordinator to record accurately planned and actual time completed on each area.
Contracted Working Hours split:
80% of contracted hours will be clinically focused on direct patient care.
The remaining 20% of contracted hours with be allocated to supporting professional actives (SPA) split between:
- Management and Leadership - of junior multidisciplinary staff.
- Education and Training maintaining own continued professional development (CPD), mandatory training/compliance and providing training and education to other staff within Directorate.
- Audit and Research of own practice and that of junior staff. Audit of departmental pathways and researching evidence-based medicine.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role holder will be required to work across these four pillars of practice, with a view to spending their time as indicated below. This will be governed by the use of Job Planning processes and will be the responsibility of the role holder in cooperation with the Clinical Lead and roster coordinator to record accurately planned and actual time completed on each area.
Contracted Working Hours split:
80% of contracted hours will be clinically focused on direct patient care.
The remaining 20% of contracted hours with be allocated to supporting professional actives (SPA) split between:
- Management and Leadership - of junior multidisciplinary staff.
- Education and Training maintaining own continued professional development (CPD), mandatory training/compliance and providing training and education to other staff within Directorate.
- Audit and Research of own practice and that of junior staff. Audit of departmental pathways and researching evidence-based medicine.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist.
- Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or in certain circumstances has completed Health Education England (HEE) ACP ePortfolio).
- Independent Prescriber (V300).
- Safeguarding Adults (level 3).
- Safeguarding Children (level 3)
- IR(ME)R certificate.
- Advanced Life Support provider (ALS) - or equivalent
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support provider (APLS) - or equivalent
- Advanced Trauma Life Support provider (ATLS) - or equivalent
- Immediate Life Support provider (ILS)
- Paediatric Immediate Life Support provider (PILS)
- Current Portfolio/ePortfolio of practice evidence
Desirable
- Completed or working toward accreditation/credentialing with The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
- Generic Instructor Course (GIC) for the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) or Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG)
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching / Assessment and mentoring qualification
- Have Ultrasound Level 1 qualification
Experience
Essential
- Has completed a specific ACP trainee programme.
- Has >5yrs speciality experience working at a senior level within Emergency, Urgent or Acute Care setting.
- Competent in the clinical assessment and management of all patient groups.
- Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team.
Desirable
- Have had line management experience.
- Experience of teaching at informal and formal level.
- Change management experience.
- Participated in audit and developed service improvement strategies.
- Has had appraisal and recruitment training.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and expertise of the four pillars of Advanced Practice.
- Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice.
- Effective verbal and non-verbal communication across the age and acuity spectrum at all levels.
- Awareness of local and national issues relating to healthcare provision.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Competent in 12 lead ECG interpretation.
- Competent to interpretation of clinical diagnostics such as blood results and make appropriate plan and intervention including blood gasses.
- Competent to interpret plain radiographs / X-rays and make appropriate clinical interventions from diagnostics.
- Has evidence of a recently undertaken audit of own practice and implemented changes where required.
Desirable
- Competent to interpret Computerised Tomography (CT) images.
- Experience of working on a Trust committee or group.
- Working knowledge of Human Resource (HR) policies.
Key Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a clear vision and the role of the ACP service.
- Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change.
- Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication, presentation and decision-making skills.
- Organised, able to prioritise, make decisions and meet targets/deadlines.
- Willingness to embrace change to meet the short-term and long-term needs of the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) directorate.
- Ability to support staff in a demanding and challenging environment.
- Personable - good role model.
- Able to work under pressure with Flexibility in approach.
- Good negotiation and advocacy skills.
- Able to undertake basic wound management (e.g., clean, medical photography, steri-strips, medical glue, appropriate dressing etc.).
- Able to undertaken advanced wound management techniques (e.g., suturing, staples etc.).
- Can undertake venepuncture, cannulation.
- Can undertake intraosseous (IO) access.
- Can identify critical Limb injuries and know how to manage including dislocations and those needing manipulation.
- Has good understanding on pain management and methods to reduce pain (e.g., analgesia, slings, cold compress, immobilisation etc).
Desirable
- Can insert Longlines/Midlines with ultrasound guidance.
Other
Essential
- Portfolio of evidence with evidence of Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS).
- Experience with using Word and Excel.
- Demonstrates understanding of relevant national strategy/policy and how to relate this to the service.
Desirable
- Experience working with Symphony IT system and or system one.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse or HCPC Registered Paramedic or Physiotherapist.
- Master's Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice (or in certain circumstances has completed Health Education England (HEE) ACP ePortfolio).
- Independent Prescriber (V300).
- Safeguarding Adults (level 3).
- Safeguarding Children (level 3)
- IR(ME)R certificate.
- Advanced Life Support provider (ALS) - or equivalent
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support provider (APLS) - or equivalent
- Advanced Trauma Life Support provider (ATLS) - or equivalent
- Immediate Life Support provider (ILS)
- Paediatric Immediate Life Support provider (PILS)
- Current Portfolio/ePortfolio of practice evidence
Desirable
- Completed or working toward accreditation/credentialing with The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)
- Generic Instructor Course (GIC) for the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) or Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG)
- Leadership qualification
- Teaching / Assessment and mentoring qualification
- Have Ultrasound Level 1 qualification
Experience
Essential
- Has completed a specific ACP trainee programme.
- Has >5yrs speciality experience working at a senior level within Emergency, Urgent or Acute Care setting.
- Competent in the clinical assessment and management of all patient groups.
- Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team.
Desirable
- Have had line management experience.
- Experience of teaching at informal and formal level.
- Change management experience.
- Participated in audit and developed service improvement strategies.
- Has had appraisal and recruitment training.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and expertise of the four pillars of Advanced Practice.
- Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice.
- Effective verbal and non-verbal communication across the age and acuity spectrum at all levels.
- Awareness of local and national issues relating to healthcare provision.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Competent in 12 lead ECG interpretation.
- Competent to interpretation of clinical diagnostics such as blood results and make appropriate plan and intervention including blood gasses.
- Competent to interpret plain radiographs / X-rays and make appropriate clinical interventions from diagnostics.
- Has evidence of a recently undertaken audit of own practice and implemented changes where required.
Desirable
- Competent to interpret Computerised Tomography (CT) images.
- Experience of working on a Trust committee or group.
- Working knowledge of Human Resource (HR) policies.
Key Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate a clear vision and the role of the ACP service.
- Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change.
- Demonstrates skilled written and verbal communication, presentation and decision-making skills.
- Organised, able to prioritise, make decisions and meet targets/deadlines.
- Willingness to embrace change to meet the short-term and long-term needs of the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) directorate.
- Ability to support staff in a demanding and challenging environment.
- Personable - good role model.
- Able to work under pressure with Flexibility in approach.
- Good negotiation and advocacy skills.
- Able to undertake basic wound management (e.g., clean, medical photography, steri-strips, medical glue, appropriate dressing etc.).
- Able to undertaken advanced wound management techniques (e.g., suturing, staples etc.).
- Can undertake venepuncture, cannulation.
- Can undertake intraosseous (IO) access.
- Can identify critical Limb injuries and know how to manage including dislocations and those needing manipulation.
- Has good understanding on pain management and methods to reduce pain (e.g., analgesia, slings, cold compress, immobilisation etc).
Desirable
- Can insert Longlines/Midlines with ultrasound guidance.
Other
Essential
- Portfolio of evidence with evidence of Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS).
- Experience with using Word and Excel.
- Demonstrates understanding of relevant national strategy/policy and how to relate this to the service.
Desirable
- Experience working with Symphony IT system and or system one.
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).
