Job summary
We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Children's Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Your will be practicing autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within Children's Emergency Department and assessment area (CAU). This fantastic standalone CED/CAU has 4 majors bays, 2 HDU bays, 2 resus bays, with a co-located CAU and decision unit.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
This role encompasses the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout acute services.
You will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across a service area.
You will deliver an 80% clinical component to their role and 20% related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, self-development, development of the service and research.
You will be working in partnership with our PEM and paediatric doctors.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
o The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
o New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
o Hertford County, Hertford
o Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Relevant registered - professional qualification -RSCN
- MSc in advanced practice
- Mentor/teaching qualification.
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Advanced Practice - Advanced non-medical prescribing
- Advanced Paed Life Support
- NMC's 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations.
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Recognised leadership qualification
- ALS/APLS Instructor
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant acute care experience, including successful completion at trainee Advanced Practitioner level or equivalent
- Established Advanced Nurse/Clinical practitioner, relevant experience of service transformation.
- Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
- Evidence of ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Evidence of audits undertaken and outcomes
Desirable
- Evidence of presentations at local / national levels
- Experience in recruitment and retention matters, staff appraisal and performance management
- Commitment to the ongoing implementation of the Trust nursing and midwifery strategy.
- In-depth understanding of quality issues including clinical governance
- Evidence of involvement with primary research
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills: interpersonal, written and verbal
- Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments, and injuries
- Competent to 'lead' paediatric resuscitation APLS / EPALS standard
- Competent in managing acutely unwell CYP
- Experience of managing complex safeguarding cases
- Make independent clinical decisions
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Confidence to adapt to an evolving and changing service.
- Well-developed IT skills
- Proven leadership skills, with a vision to work with others
Desirable
- Local and national health policy
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Previous publication(s)
- Change management experience and/or qualification
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- Relevant registered - professional qualification -RSCN
- MSc in advanced practice
- Mentor/teaching qualification.
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- Advanced Practice - Advanced non-medical prescribing
- Advanced Paed Life Support
- NMC's 'Academic Assessors', 'Practice Supervisors', and 'Practice Assessors accreditations.
Desirable
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Recognised leadership qualification
- ALS/APLS Instructor
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant acute care experience, including successful completion at trainee Advanced Practitioner level or equivalent
- Established Advanced Nurse/Clinical practitioner, relevant experience of service transformation.
- Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
- Evidence of ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback
- Implementation of audit/research recommendations
- Evidence of audits undertaken and outcomes
Desirable
- Evidence of presentations at local / national levels
- Experience in recruitment and retention matters, staff appraisal and performance management
- Commitment to the ongoing implementation of the Trust nursing and midwifery strategy.
- In-depth understanding of quality issues including clinical governance
- Evidence of involvement with primary research
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent communication skills: interpersonal, written and verbal
- Nurse-led management of minor illness, minor ailments, and injuries
- Competent to 'lead' paediatric resuscitation APLS / EPALS standard
- Competent in managing acutely unwell CYP
- Experience of managing complex safeguarding cases
- Make independent clinical decisions
- Experience of chronic disease management
- Confidence to adapt to an evolving and changing service.
- Well-developed IT skills
- Proven leadership skills, with a vision to work with others
Desirable
- Local and national health policy
- Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
- Previous publication(s)
- Change management experience and/or qualification
- Awareness of issues within the wider health arena
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).
