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Job summary

Main area
Children's and Young People
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service and nights)
Job ref
361-7192130
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2025 23:59

Employer heading

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Children's Services

NHS AfC: Band 7

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

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, and Improve. 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.

Working for our organisation

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:

•              The Lister Hospital, Stevenage

•              New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City

•              Hertford County, Hertford

•              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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • Recognised teaching qualification
  • Recognised leadership qualification
  • ALS/APLS Instructor

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • 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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lizzie Franklin-Jones
Job title
Divisional Director of Nursing and Quality for CYP
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07974004767
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