Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Haematology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (This is HAU funding pending commissioning agreement on on going costs)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday 8am to 8pm)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1464
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- Sterling Way Edmonton London
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro-rata if LTFT)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Haemoglobinopathy Advanced Care Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Do you fancy change & an excellent opportunity? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a compassionate & innovative ACP within the Haemoglobinopathy Service, will play an integral role in the management & delivery of high-quality care, can act autonomously, within their professional boundaries. The postholder will provide care from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, & evaluation. They will demonstrate safe clinical decision making & expert care for patients as an integral part of a dedicated. multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will incorporate the role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management, & research. This post will suit an experienced, enthusiastic, motivated nurse with experience in caring for clients with red cell blood disorders, or ED background, or critical care. This is the job for someone who fancies a challenge. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of the above conditions & must also be willing to learn or expand their expertise in this area. Support can be given for further development & career progression. We are essentially looking for a nurse who has excellent communication skills & enjoys working as part of a small team. The successful applicant must have experience & must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience for caring for clients with blood disorders, nursing quality and clinical audit/clinical governance.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a compassionate and innovative individual to work as an Advanced Care Practitioner (ANP) within the Haemoglobinopathy Service
The ACP will play an integral role in the management and delivery of high-quality patient care who can act autonomously, within their professional boundaries.
The post holder will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of their care. They will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and expert care for patients as an integral part of a dedicated. multidisciplinary team.
The post holder will incorporate the Associate Care Practitioner role dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management, and research This post is full time 37.5 hours per week.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties of the job
· To liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of expert patient care across professional boundaries.
· To independently manage a patient caseload utilizing advanced decision making and extended clinical skills.
· To undertake Haemoglobinopathy practitioner led clinics and to be responsible for individualized care planning and contribute to annual reviews.
· To work autonomously to deliver specialist Haemoglobinopathy clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient’s group and based on principles that are research based and which enhance the quality of patient care.
· To co-design the planning, delivery, and evaluation of care pathways for patients with haematological conditions.
· To lead on training and education within Haemoglobinopathy specialist areas such as outpatient clinics the Haemoglobinopathy day unit and in patient wards.
· To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research.
· To act as a visible Haemoglobinopathy role model and expert.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse/Practitioner • Post registration qualification in related speciality. • Teaching qualification or evidence of ability to teach. • Educated to degree level. • Able to demonstrate significant. • experience in speciality.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of current clinical developments within speciality • Delivery of red cell exchange both manual and automated • Phlebotomy/cannulation • Midline/femoral line insertion • Intravenous drugs administration • Management of PCA • Ability to work alone and to prioritise workload. • Knowledge of being accountable practitioner • IT skills and knowledge • Punctuality and reliability in attending to duties. • Skilled practitioner who will act as a role models. • Skilled in verbal and written communication • Experience of teaching colleagues and patients using appropriate terminology
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant experience within the speciality at Band 6 • Experience of working in the acute inpatient setting • Experience of implementing change within the workplace • Evidence of implementing research into practice • Evidence of leadership skills • Experience of audit
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to communicate with people from varied social and cultural backgrounds. • Flexible and methodical in the workplace • Ability to work under pressure. • Experience of supporting nurses, junior doctors, patients, and carers using appropriate language and terminology • Knowledge of resource management issues • Knowledge of the concept of clinical supervision • Committed to personal development and the development of clinical staff • Understand Health and Safety at Work Act and local rules and know their responsibilities to others. • Understand the Data Protection and Equalities Act and their implications. • Have experience and knowledge of financial management/budget. • Knowledge of current changes and developments within the NHS • Demonstrate knowledge and experience in adult safeguarding policies and procedures
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Sekayi Tangayi
- Job title
- Consultant Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816364359
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