Job summary
Employer heading
Paediatric Advanced Critical Care Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
The successful post holder will be:
- Employed as an established ACCP, delivering patient-centred care with a high degree of autonomy, independent assessment and clinical decision-making, practicing in line with NHS England’s (NHSE) Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice
(formally HEE, 2017), or other recognised service specific credential, their primary professional regulatory body standards and own scope of practice for the service/patient
population. - Fulfil the expectations and core capabilities of an ACCP as set out in the NHSE Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (or other recognised service specific credential), delivering independent clinical practice across the four pillars of
advanced practice, with commitment to a culture of life-long learning and continuous professional development, through engagement with clinical supervision and maintenance of an advanced practice professional portfolio.
Please note that applications for this post will not be shortlisted until the 26th August.
Main duties of the job
- Work in partnership with patients, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team, to best meet the needs and wellbeing of the patient, delivering high quality evidence-based care within Paediatric Critical Care and Retrieval services. The practitioner will be expected to demonstrate proficiency across the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, namely Clinical, Leadership and Management, Education and Research.
- The practitioner will be expected to work at an advanced level drawing on a diverse range of knowledge and clinical skills, with complex decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions required. This may be on Oxford University Hospital sites, any other hospital, or no-hospital site as part of the SORT retrieval service
- As a qualified ACCP in Paediatric Critical Care the practitioner must be able to work autonomously, delivering safe and effective practice, as part of an MDT
- Must be able to effectively lead a team in resuscitating, stabilising and transferring a critically ill child, performing any high-level clinical or technical skills and procedures necessary to carry this out in paediatric patients, either in the OUH paediatric intensive care,
emergency department, or independently in transport/retrieval environments. - Able to recognise, assess and manage the full range of both medical and surgical paediatric conditions requiring intensive care support, including the management of safeguarding issues within this environment
Working for our organisation
Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) at OUH includes 17 co-located Level 2 and 3 critical care beds, delivering a wide range of specialist services to patients from Oxfordshire and the wider Thames Valley and Wessex Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network (TVW PCC ODN). We are a leading Neurosurgical and Major Trauma Centre and have a vast number of medical and surgical specialities. The unit is undergoing an exciting period of estate and workforce development and investment, with a move into newly built unit within the next 5 years.
SORT Retrieval Service OUH PCC Services include the SORT (Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team) service, delivered in collaboration with Southampton across TVW PCC ODN. It is staffed by doctors, ACPs and nurses from both Oxford and Southampton, with Oxford providing a retrieval team 24/7.
Critical Care Outreach Service is a team of experienced nurses who support all healthcare professionals in the assessment and management of unwell children across the children’s hospital, emergency department, and neonatal unit, following up and supporting children and families following discharge.
Education, Development and Training is provided through a structured competency-based development programme, and we are piloting an inhouse PCC L3 specialist course for nursing staff. Clinical and leadership career development pathways are available. We have a growing team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners who work across PCCU and SORT services at OUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Healthcare Professional (NMC, HCPC or GPhC)
- First level degree (HEI Level 5 or 6) in undergraduate base profession
- MSc L7 Advanced Practice, or equivalent in relevant Advanced Practice field
- Specialist post-graduate education / qualifications, or training relevant to Paediatric Critical Care
- Relevant training for extended skills and imaging interpretation (e.g. IRMER)
- APLS - Advanced Paediatric Life Support Course
Desirable criteria
- Paediatric field registration or other relevant qualifications
- Mentoring or Facilitating Workplace Learning Qualification
- Leadership Course or Qualification
- Professional ACP Credential from recognised professional body pathways (e.g. FICM), or NHSE
- APLS Instructor
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant proven experience and expertise within speciality of the recruiting area for the ACCP role (PICU/retrieval)
- Proven evidence of management ability and leadership skills
- Evidence of ongoing CPD, including multisource-feedback and workplace-based assessments evidence within own professional portfolio of evidence.
- Excellent clinical acumen and practical procedural skills (with evidence of competency and capability) as an independent practitioner, as per Job Description.
- Existing technical clinical procedural skills relevant to PICU clinical service – with evidence of comprehensive critical care competencies
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues and measures of quality
- Experience and evidence of clinical audit, service evaluation or improvements in practice
- Ability to appraise evidence, using analytical and problem-solving skills to inform decision-making, and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
Desirable criteria
- Experience of change management
- Demonstrable evidence of research capability, or the application of research evidence to own clinical practice
- Experience of writing for publication and/or conference presentations
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Commitment to CPD practices for own development, and the development and support of others
- Commitment to evidencing own professional development, capabilities and competency development via workplace-based assessments and use of a portfolio
- Willingness to engage in clinical supervision to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours across the breadth of the four pillars of advanced practice
- Ability to recognise and analyse complex situations, utilising decision-making skills to take appropriate action
- Evidence of teaching and sharing knowledge with others in the MDT or externally to organisation.
- Demonstration of leadership in clinical practice
- Ability to recognise own limitations, working within scope of practice, acting on feedback linked to practice change when required
- Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, which may include days/weekends or nights, as required to fulfil the ACP role, and dependent on service needs
- Evidence of effective team working and team leadership (when required) as part of a multi-disciplinary professional team
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work with a high level of attention to detail, supporting ability to deliver service measurement and improvement
- Evidence of leadership skills in relation to delivering educational teaching or lecturers, with associated feedback and evaluations, internally and/or externally to the organisation (e.g. HEIs)
Behavioural Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a clear vision of the ACCP role in developing the clinical service
- Aligned to the Trust values, conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times
- Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders, excellent communication skills (all channels)
- Willingness and enthusiasm towards working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in delivering care
Technical IM&T Skills
Essential criteria
- Computer literate with experience of working with Microsoft Office packages
- Evidence of portfolio use
- Advanced keyboard skills, to ensure fluent documentation
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
- Sara-Louise Hulme
- Job title
- Consultant Paediatric Intensivist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865221411
- Additional information
Zoe Pooley, Oxford Children's Hospital Matron
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