Nurse Consultant Medicine
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join the team in the Medicine and Emergency Care Collaborative. The successful candidate will support the medical teams in delivering a quality service to medical outliers.
You will be joining an established team of affable, dynamic consultants, junior doctors and nurses who strive to provide the highest level of clinical care in the friendly atmosphere of the acute footprint.
The post holder will be working autonomously as an Nurse Consultant (Senior ACP), under direct or indirect supervision of senior medical colleagues, at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment working effectively across all four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Consultants with day-to-day clinical activity (to be determined according to need of specialist area).
The post holder will be providing in-patient/ambulatory and outpatient areas with consistent high quality clinical care, supporting trust management teams with on-going clinical care provision and assist with effective patient flow through the trust.
Main duties of the job
Function's clinically at Tier 2 level and takes part in the Tier 2 rota across all areas of Medicine including medical outliers not residing in base wards working a standard shift pattern.
Day to day clinical functions will include but is not limited to:
- Leading ward round rounds for medical outliers on other base wards
- Supporting acute admission units, short stay units, acute medical wards, and SDEC
- Reviewing medical patients in ED who are awaiting a medical bed, to mitigate risk and optimise acute medical car
- Applies complex reasoning and critical thinking to a range of acute medical situations in order to make considered clinical judgements about diagnosis, care, treatment and escalation to other colleagues and services.
- Demonstrates leadership and innovation in a clinical context that can be unfamiliar, complex and volatile which require solutions involving many interacting factors.
Has a pivotal role in the training and development of ACP's, Enhanced Nurse Practitioners and junior nursing and medical colleagues across Medicine
Provide and assure evidence-based care to individual patient/service users and groups.
Continually review and develop own, service, and organisational effectiveness, lead service improvement and actively contribute to the body of knowledge through research.
Work within the HEE (2020) consultant level practice capability and impact framework.
About us
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Details
Date posted
05 July 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8b
Salary
£58,972 to £68,525 a year Per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
328-UE-5363344-LJ
Job locations
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Collaborative Lead and Respiratory Consultant
Dr Sathyamurthy
ramamurthy.sathyamurthy@nhs.net
01642852445
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