Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 13.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-S6686144
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whiston Hosptial
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 Annex 21
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/12/2024 08:00
Employer heading
Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint 0.37 WTE Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (or equivalent with Master’s degree in advanced clinical nursing practice and relevant paediatric experience) to join our existing team of Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners.
We are inviting applications form caring, enthusiastic, reliable, flexible, and motivated individuals with excellent clinical and managerial skills who are
committed to ongoing learning and development and competent at ensuring children, young people and their families receive safe, high quality, optimum care from staff who feel valued and an essential part of the team.
The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners play a lead role in the running of our established children and young people’s observation area (ChObs) accepting referrals directly from GP’s, Midwives and from the Paediatric Emergency Department. They are also responsible for providing support to sick and critically ill children and young people, supporting nursing and medical staff to care for these patients.
Successful candidates will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team taking a lead on co-ordination of dynamic testing which takes place within the
department. They will assist in the promotion and delivery of key training and education, developing unit initiatives and service development.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of Children’s Barred Lists is required for this post.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (APNP) is competent at undertaking advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries using assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. By case managing patients, including independently ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing, the APNP will safely and effectively provide care for paediatric patients and their families admitted to the Paediatric wards.
The APNP, although clinical approximately 80% of the time, also has a senior clinical leadership role within the Directorate, striving to constantly improve nursing care on the wards through developing new initiatives, undertaking audit and an active role in education, mentorship and supervision.
The post holder will work closely with the Matron and Directorate Manager, Paediatrics and the senior paediatric team to ensure both the Directorate’s local governance agenda and the national agenda for nursing and children is fully met
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Undertake history and physical examination to accurately assess the patient’s condition. Critically analyse findings to form a diagnosis and develop appropriate treatment plan and discharge patients safely.
- Order, interpret and act upon relevant diagnostic tests and procedures.
- Interpret, convey and relay complex and conflicting information to MDT members/patients/relatives in possibly stressful situations, which may be delicate or offensive in nature i.e. breaking bad news.
- Act as a clinical expert providing continuous support to the nursing staff and other MDT members within and outside designated area of work.
- Undertake advanced (invasive and non-invasive) procedures pertaining to patient need, in accordance with appropriate training and clinical supervision.
- Act autonomously admitting and discharging patients, referring to appropriate specialists/care agencies as appropriate.
- Prescribe medication in accordance with current legislation and trust policy.
- Maintain comprehensive, contemporaneous and accurate nursing/medical records and documentation, utilising information technology where available to facilitate caseload management.
- Effectively manage acute life-threatening conditions in accordance with current ALS/ATLS/APLS/ALERT guidelines (as appropriate to area of work/need).
- Act as a role model through demonstration of high standards of practice, providing a clinical environment that motivates and encourages effective working partnerships.
- Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, case conferences, clinical and audit meetings.
- Gain informed consent from patients for procedures undertaken by self or on behalf of others, both written and verbal, according to trust policy.
- Provide evidence-based specialist knowledge and advice to patient’s, families/carers throughout the patient’s journey to meet their physical, emotional and psychological needs.
- Provide clinical expertise in the management of patients utilising specialist theoretical and clinical skills
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Personally prioritise and schedule the management of patient caseloads ensuring optimisation of resources.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSBILITIES
- Be an agent for change, monitoring and evaluating practice and generating new and innovative solutions to clinical practice problems to enable delivery of a better service and strive towards advancing practice.
- Lead / guide nursing and medical staff in the appropriate and timely care of the patient.
- Act as a resource providing advice, support and guidance to all members of the health care team both within the directorate and trust wide.
LINE MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide support for senior nursing staff in relation to staff development and complaints including staff appraisals of own nurse team.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff as appropriate.
GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide evidence-based leadership ensuring that practice is disseminated to the MDT.
- Abide by the Caldicott Principles with regard to confidentiality.
- Act as an effective communicator/negotiator inter-departmentally managing conflict and reconciliation and facilitating change.
- Remain flexible to the needs of patients and the Trust in the provision of quality service delivery.
- Be involved in strategic health planning and respond to trust strategies, initiatives and targets, both regionally and nationally.
- Network locally, regionally and nationally to share and exchange ideas and principles.
- Provide an active leadership role in contributing to own departmental issue pertaining to clinical governance agendas’ and shared governance within the trust e.g. maintaining standards, risk management, clinical audit and research, standard setting, benchmarking, evidence based practice etc.
- Effectively time manage.
- Assist in the development of policy and guideline implementation at local and regional level.
SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES
To be competent at safeguarding children and implementing the Child in Need and Child Protection procedures as appropriate includes the following skills, competencies and knowledge:
- Be able to recognise child abuse and be able to document accurately child protection concerns according to Laming recommendations, differentiating fact from opinion
- Understand which groups of children are at risk of harm or neglect and know who to contact / inform / seek advice from; know how to contact them 24 hours a day, seven days a week, know when to contact them according to Trust and Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards policies and procedures
- Know when and how to act, when and how to refer and the importance of following up a referral.
- Understand the next steps in the child protection process
- Share safeguarding information appropriately – in writing, by telephone, electronically or in person understanding the difference between information sharing on individual, organisational and professional levels.
- Know what to record, how long to keep it, how to dispose of records correctly, and when to feedback or follow up.
- Have understanding of own (and others’) professional roles and boundaries, including the Named professionals, trust managers and social workers.
- Knowledge of the implications of key national document/reports.
- Understand the assessment of risk and harm.
- Understand and support staff with multi-agency frameworks, investigations, working and child protection assessment processes including the use of the Common Assessment Framework / investigation/working, child protection investigation and the basics of forensic procedures
- Present child protection concerns in a child protection conference.
- Work with families where there are child protection concerns.
- Advise other agencies regarding the health management of child protection concerns.
- Contribute to serious case reviews or individual management reviews.
- Aware of Local Safeguarding Children’s Board and its remit
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Ensure optimal and economical use of resources exploring potential for cost improvement, without compromising services.
- Be responsible for providing service within pay and non-pay budget.
- Support Matron and Directorate Manager in providing services within budget – identifying early and potential cost pressures.
- Assist Matron and Directorate Manager in developing capital bids and business cases incorporating finance.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
- To be actively involved in the Paediatric Department’s audit programme
- Recruiting patients to appropriate research projects and Liaison with Paediatric Research Nurse
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RSCN/RN Child
- Evidence of life-long learning
- Degree in Advanced Clinical Nursing, preferably Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practice
- APLS / PLS certified
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Level 3 safeguarding children training
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
- Management qualification
- Evidence of life-long learning
- APLS instructor
- RN (adult)
- Critical care qualification
- Master’s degree in advanced clinical nursing practice
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant years recent relevant experience in acute/community paediatrics.
- Able to recognise and implement appropriate management to a critically ill child aged from birth to 18 years
- Demonstrate ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
- Evidence of multidisciplinary / multi-agency working
- Evidence of change management experience
- Safeguarding Children experience and sound working knowledge of and ability to implement the Safeguarding and Child in Need agenda.
- Ability to develop fully staff potential through facilitating training, development and education initiatives.
- Working knowledge of all components of clinical governance, including risk management, audit, research, clinical standards, policies, protocols, education, training and human resources
- Clinical credibility and expert specialist knowledge of children’s and neonatal nursing
- Working knowledge of current national and local legislation/guidance / NSFs / policies in health, professional nursing issues and children’s services agenda
- Advanced knowledge and skills to initiate and evaluate research based practice
- Ability to influence and work together with multidisciplinary / multi-agency teams at a strategic / senior operational level
- Ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Children’s ITU or HDU experience
- Audit experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability to practise advanced clinical skills
- Clinical assessment, planning and management skills, able to case manage, including ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing (if completed NMP)
- Effective communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills
- Quality/excellence focused
- Ability to work autonomously
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
- Janet Bentham
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 430 1809
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