Job summary
- Main area
- NHS Jobs
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 32 hours per week
- Job ref
- 153-ME03414
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ABI and Neurology)
Band 8A
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Job summary
The ABI and Neurology ACP role is an exciting opportunity for the right person who is highly motivated with excellent communication skills and a passion for service development and improvement. The role will include leading and developing an established service with imminent plans ahead to increase the inpatient bed base and move to a new purpose build clinical area within UHD.
The role will involve managing a caseload of complex patients, to provide education, facilitate the rehabilitation plan. and provide specialist advice for patients, their families and the wider MDT. You will be familiar with national guidelines, pathways and treatments.
The ACP will utilise their advanced specialist clinical skills and extensive knowledge to undertake specialist assessments via a patient centred approach. You will have the ability to work independently, autonomously and safely within your clinical competency. As a positive role model you will lead by example and uphold the highest standards of care.
The role follows a patient from pre-admission (Major Trauma Network), through management of key rehabilitation aspects, including continence management, behaviour management and sexual health/relationships, through to complex discharge planning and management, closely liaising with external agencies, including the complex brain injury rehabilitation pathway.
This role requires UK registered practitioner
Base Location: Poole
Interview date: TBC
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
To be a skilled advanced practitioner providing clinical care using an extensive theoretical knowledge base with practical experience to underpin the role.
To improve the experience and outcomes of care for often complex patient group. Ensuring the patients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.
To be able to deliver specialist educational programmes to a range of healthcare professionals in relation to neurological conditions of those patient we care for in our bed base.
The post is integral to the ABI Service and Neurology Services and is a key bridge between the Therapy and Nursing teams on Portland Ward, as well as on outlying wards. The role follows a patient from pre-admission (Badgernet/Major Trauma Network), through to management of key rehabilitation goals.
This role will include cross site working, so you will need a driving licence and access to a car
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
There is a planned move for this service anticipated during 2025, when this role and base of work will relocate to Bournemouth site. Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the post holder’s home and work base will be classified as a commute. Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job responsibilities
To act as an initial point of referral for patients with acquired brain injury (ABI) and neurology to specialist services across Dorset, and undertake initial assessment to inform possible admission onto the ward. They will require being familiar with the Northwick Park dependency care dependency and Northwick Park complexity scale.
To undertake initial assessment and provide a report using the Northwick dependency scale to communicate with the team as to whether this patient meets our criteria.
To Participate the development of acquired brain injury services through education and active participation in the Trust Clinical Governance agenda.
To undertake a detailed and highly specialised patient assessment, identifying both the immediate and on-going physical and psychosocial needs.
To respond to critical incidents through by the adverse incident reporting system and complaints procedure.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Advanced Practitioner Qualification
- Teaching qualification
Desirable
- Working towards Masters Level.
- Non-medical independent and supplementary prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years' experience at band 7
- Managing patient pathways within Neurology
- Good teaching and mentoring experience
Desirable
- Participation in relevant professional interest groups
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Excellent assessment skills, relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of Neurology patients
Desirable
- Research, evaluation and audit
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential
- Have a driving licence
- Have access to a car
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice/Equivalent Masters
Desirable criteria
- Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working independently at a Band 7 Clinical role within relevant specialty
- Application of advanced clinical skills into practice, with ABI and neurology specialty focus.
- Experience of service and practice development and managing change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical skills, such as assessing patient’s physical status requiring precision, accuracy, dexterity.
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information from patient assessment and interventions, such as specified x rays, ECGs and freedom to act in managing patients ‘care.
Desirable criteria
- To be able to undertake lumber punctures or willingness to learn.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Conversant in relevant specialty Advanced practice developments at national / local levels
Other requirements specific to the role
Essential criteria
- Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
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
- Nikki Manns
- Job title
- Matron Network Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 6607
- Additional information
Dr Katherine Fairbairn - [email protected]
Jody Bryant - [email protected]
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