Preoperative Advanced Clinical Practitioner Lead

Job summary

The post holder will provide specialist advice and support to all colleagues within the Trust and providing nursing led care for patients undergoing elective surgery. The ACP role will encompass direct patient care and will provide a leadership to the Perioperative nursing team. The expectations within this job description will reflect the 4 pillars of advanced nursing practice, with the role holder delivering professional leadership, consultancy, education and training, service development, research, and scholarly activities within the sphere of pre-operative nursing. The focus of this role in agreement with the Associate Chief Nurse is to use nursing expertise to:

• Further Develop independent nurse-led services within the pre-operative treatment centre to improve the timeliness and quality of care to patients undergoing elective surgery.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team undertaking management of a caseload of patients requiring complex preoperative assessment and care planning e.g. high risk anaesthetic patients and patients with Learning Disabilities. The role will provide an interface between the patient, carer and medical and nursing disciplines, developing nursing practice and identifying opportunities for improved healthcare.
• Develop coherent and 'seamless' pre-operative care for patients across multi-professional teams in primary and secondary health care settings.
• To provide clinical nursing advice, education and leadership within the speciality

Main duties of the job

You will:

> Have clinical responsibilities and be expected to have your own clinic streams providing preoperative assessments for patients with complex needs and multiple comorbidities. ,

> Be resource to the staff in the department when required offering advice and guidance on assessments and diagnostics required, onward referrals and next steps.

> Be responsible for the day-to-day management of the teams and departments, co-ordinating and ensuring the department is running efficiently and safely and problem-solving issues as they arise.

> Responsible for the rota management and the people, health and wellbeing management of your teams. Working alongside HR as required.

> Managing the departments workforce and non-workforce budgets effectively and have oversight of the financial position of the unit/Trust.

> You will develop close links with the clinical MDT and CBU operational team. You will help to identify innovative solutions and opportunities to develop the service and increase the capacity.

> As the governance lead you will actively contribute to learning from events and helping to identify systems learning and sharing this with your team.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.