Out of Hours Nurse Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual who has a passion for the delivery of high quality, patient focused care. You will support the Nurse Practitioner Team Leader, Lead Nurse, Matrons and Senior Sisters within all wards in the CSUs to provide expert, holistic care of high standards to both the patients and their relatives.

The successful candidate will work Out of Hours alongside the current Nurse Practitioners and the medical team. The role is multifaceted including bed management, staff management and clinical assessment responsibilities. The role covers nights 7 days a week and also weekends and bank holiday days.

The Out of Hours Nurse Practitioner Service provides support, advice and clinical expertise to 14 wards/areas out of hours and is mostly an autonomous role.

Candidates will have significant experience at Band 5, ideally within the speciality, and be able to demonstrate good leadership qualities, an ability to work autonomously, an ability to work efficiently and effectively, excellent prioritisation skills and ideally extended clinical skills such as cannulation, venepuncture, catheterisation, ECGs, ABGs and Line Bloods. A commitment to personal professional development as well as that of team members and the service is required.

You will be required:

To assess deteriorating patients on the wards out of hours and be a contact for escalation of deteriorating patients. You will be required to work collaboratively with the Medical Team to ensure appropriate management plans are put in place.

You will be carrying the emergency crash bleep for Lincoln wing and Bexley wing and be expected to attend and participant the resuscitation of the unwell patient.

To act as the senior nurse out of hours, ensure appropriate staffing levels within individual wards, respond to complaint, support the ward staff to deliver high quality care and maintain the ward rosters. You will be required to uphold standards and promote best practice out of hours.

The successful candidate will support the senior nursing teams to robustly manage the wards and support all members of the Nursing teams

You will be required to manage beds across AMS working closely with the CSM out of hours.

To act as a positive role model to all staff. Particular emphasis is on the need to ensure that all staff recognises their responsibility to deliver services in a high quality, courteous, patient focused manner, and to maintain patient confidentiality at all times.

To assess the wards staffing levels and skill mix to ensure they have the most appropriate skills and competencies to ensure the wards are staffed safely and patients are safe. This may mean at times or on occasions there may be a need for you to staff the wards either for a full shift or to support during busy times.

We would like to hear from you if you can demonstrate your passion and commitment to the provision of high quality patient centred care. You will be able to demonstrate proven clinical skills, leadership attributes and a drive for achieving and sustaining high clinical standards and to work under pressure.

Knowledge

Insight into clinical speciality

Insight into current issues in nursing/professional issues

Standards of professional practice

Personal Attributes

Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team

Professional, compassionate and patient centred

Professional and patient focused

Flexible, adaptable, capable of lateral thinking

Excellent interpersonal skills

Demonstrates a commitment to personal development

Assertive, courageous

Person Specification

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Ability to work independently and as part of the multidisciplinary team

Desirable

• Insight into clinical specialty, insight into current issues in Nursing/professional issues
• Standards of professional practice
• Independently assess, diagnose, prioritise, treat and safely discharge patients with surgical conditions in accordance with agreed protocols

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience at Staff Nurse level or equivalent within specialty

Desirable

• Ability to assess, diagnose, treat and evaluate clinical need with defined protocols

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Able to communicates effectively, competent in the use of information technology.
• Ability to assess, diagnose, ability to teach, supervise and assess qualified and unqualified staff.
• Clinical leadership, able to perform venepuncture, cannulation, blood gases, line bloods, ECG

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse (Level1)
• Teaching/assessing qualification

Desirable

• Non- medical prescribing qualification

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)