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-A
- 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
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
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
- Registered Children’s Nurse
- Expectation of willingness to participate in Masters level further education
- PILS and/or commitment to maintain this competence yearly
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Masters level education
- Non-medical prescriber
- Advanced clinical assessment module
- Leadership qualification
- APLS and/or commitment to undertake within 1 year of being in post.
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience, with experience at senior level in acute services
- Team leadership experience, including effective staff management including HR issues, sickness, grievance and disciplinary management / investigation
- Evidence of enhanced clinical skills
- Well-developed IT skills
- Awareness of relevant national and local key performance indicators
- Awareness of relevant local and national strategies
- Awareness of implications of advanced practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience in recruitment and retention matters, staff appraisal and performance management
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to make decisions, organise and prioritise own workload
- Leadership skills and self-motivation
- Able to maintain judgement under pressure
- Ability to form professional interpersonal relationships and to forge trust with colleagues and other stakeholders
- Demonstrate enthusiasm, assertiveness and commitment to all elements of role
- Adaptable, open and receptive to change
- Demonstrates attention to detail, completion and evaluation
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of effective and excellent teaching skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Evidence of multi -disciplinary team working
- Evidence of supporting others’ development
- Competent and confident approach to practice
- Flexibility around anti-social working patterns
- Ability to synthesise information, consider and evaluate risks and options when making difficult decisions
- Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
- Role model our Trust values every day
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
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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