Job Details
Job overview
The Surgical Day Surgery and Same Day Admission Wards is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Band 8a Advanced Nurse Practitioner. This brand-new post has been created as part of the further expansion of our Day Care Team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the innovative and dynamic Day Care team. We are looking for a motivated Advanced Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about Day Care, service development and providing high standards of patient centred care. You will be working closely within a Multidisciplinary team of Doctors, Nurses, HCAs, all of whom are committed to maintaining independence, promoting self-care, and assisting children and their families.
As the Advanced Nurse Practitioner, you will demonstrate expert clinical judgement and clinical decision-making through assessment and interpretation of clinical information to support children and their families to receive the necessary expert Day Case care to optimise clinical outcomes.
We look forward to what you can bring to the team, and your ACP knowledge and experience from a different clinical background will enhance our team dynamic and provide a robust framework for you to build a significant depth of learning.
Main duties of the job
Clinical practice level and balancing time
The career framework for health places the “Advanced Clinical Practitioner” with an 80:20 split ration of clinical practice: leadership, education and research. This will be illustrated in the individual’s job and roster plans.
HEE (2017) defines the ACP role as:
Advanced clinical practice is delivered by experienced registered health and care practitioners. It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by a master’s level award or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competence.
Advanced clinical practice embodies the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families, and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people’s experience and improve outcomes.”
The role will require a combination of:
· Educational theoretical & practical expertise
· The capability to apply expert in depth knowledge to clinical care.
· Ability to demonstrate core capabilities in practice.
· Ability to make high level clinical decisions through critical thinking, analysis & reflection.
Working for our organisation
GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.
We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.
We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.
We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women’s staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust’s mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential criteria
- Always welcoming, Always helpful, Always expert, Always one team
Academic and professional qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered actively with the NMC as a Registered Nurse as one of the core ACPs professionally registered groups (HEE 2017) with significant relevant experience in specialty
- Registered qualification as a nurse, as a non-medical prescriber (independent prescriber) & actively practicing
- Masters in advanced clinical Practice with a recognised Higher Education Institution or evidence of demonstrable competence across all ACP mapped domains (HEE 2018)
- Assessing & mentoring/Teaching qualification relevant to your regulatory Body
- Evidence of advanced communication skills and/or working towards relevant training
- Skills relevant to the role , phlebotomy and cannulation
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable practice development and evidence/ portfolio of embedding ACP role into clinical practice
- Evidence of previous IRMER training / radiology safety or willing to undertake
- Attendance on a clinical leadership programme
- Evidence of ongoing, dynamic continuous professional development, with demonstrable clinical competencies, relevant to the area and role of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Advanced Paediatric Resuscitation (EPLS)
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Thorough knowledge relevant to the specialty/ department / field of practice
- Thorough knowledge of professional & current issues in children’s healthcare needs, ACP health agenda
- Knowledge of the importance of evidence-based practice & how quality improvement, audit & research improves care outcomes
- Safeguarding Children & Adults procedures & responsibilities
- Experience of working clinically as an ACP in a paediatric unit
- Evidence of working with babies, children, or young people & their families to improve patient experience
- Partakes in professional development groups
- Experience & evidence of sustaining change / quality improvement
- Using outcome measures & key performance indicators to demonstrate the quality and efficiency of clinical care
- Experience of clinical & formal teaching
- Awareness of equality, diversity & cultural diversity
Desirable criteria
- Detailed understanding of change management, audit & research methodologies
- Knowledge of clinical governance & improvement agenda
- Experience of taking charge of a department and/or of leading or managing a team
- Knowledge of undertaking audit & utilizing research findings, including presentation and publication
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to work collaboratively and as part of a multi-professional team
- Keeps a personal portfolio of professional practice and a continuum of learning.
- Ability to initiate, manage and sustain change to meet the needs of children & young people
- A flexible approach to work, with the ability to work shifts and unsociable hours and occasional weekends
- Ability to deal with conflict situations within a team, as well as events involving the team
- Accountability – Takes responsibility for own actions & promotes good team working
- Openness – Shares information & good practice appropriately
- Mutual respect – Treats others with courtesy & respect at all times
