Job summary
Are you a highly skilled registered professional who wishes to take on the role of a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Emergency Care? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for inspirational and motivated clinician to join our team within the Emergency departmentbased at our Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.
You will have extensive experience of working in Primary/Secondary Care and ideally Emergency Care Experience as a senior nurse or Health Care Professional as an autonomous clinician. With your advanced clinical assessment skills, you will be responsible for managing your own caseload and assessing, treating, referring and discharging patients in your care as well as providing support and guidance to junior doctors/practitioners developing they knowledge and skills within ED.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
For further information on Annex 20, please see:
http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
The trainee, working under supervision, will develop advanced knowledge and skill to meet the capabilities presented in the Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England. It is expected that the trainee's level of autonomy will increase to the point of independent practice within the specialty.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The practitioner will-
- Use advanced knowledge and skills in to undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
- Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries
- Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
Job description
Job responsibilities
The practitioner will-
- Use advanced knowledge and skills in to undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, make decisions based on clinical reasoning and initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions
- Provide professional senior clinical leadership and support within the specialty multi professional team and across service boundaries
- Support the wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and interprofessional learning, and the application of learning to practice. Act as a role model, educator, supervisor, coach and mentor
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Relevant degree, minimum 2:2 and willingness to work toward a Masters level qualification
- Evidence of relevant, recent study continuing education.
Desirable
- Management and leadership qualification
- IR(ME)R training
- ALS / APLS
- Major Incident Training
- Prescribing qualification (where legally permitted)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive demonstrable experience in specialty / clinical area
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice
- Experience of participation in clinical audit
- Evidence of management ability and leadership qualities.
- Evidence of ability to work autonomously within a variety of clinical situations.
Desirable
- Experience of leading clinical governance
- Experience of research activity
- Experience of Service Improvement / Quality Improvement / Practice Development
- Experience of developing evidence based protocols and clinical guidelines.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Professional registration with NMC / HCPC / GPC
- Relevant degree, minimum 2:2 and willingness to work toward a Masters level qualification
- Evidence of relevant, recent study continuing education.
Desirable
- Management and leadership qualification
- IR(ME)R training
- ALS / APLS
- Major Incident Training
- Prescribing qualification (where legally permitted)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive demonstrable experience in specialty / clinical area
- Experience of implementing evidence based practice
- Experience of participation in clinical audit
- Evidence of management ability and leadership qualities.
- Evidence of ability to work autonomously within a variety of clinical situations.
Desirable
- Experience of leading clinical governance
- Experience of research activity
- Experience of Service Improvement / Quality Improvement / Practice Development
- Experience of developing evidence based protocols and clinical guidelines.
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).
