Advanced Clinical Practitioner

We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. We are currently recruiting for qualified ACPs to join our growing Surgical Same Day Emergency Care team. Working alongside our Emergency Surgical teams you will provide excellent same day emergency care to a range of Surgical patients. We are looking for enthusiastic professionals that can help to develop the service and provide quality same day care for our patients.

The post has been advertised as a Band 8A; however, depending on your clinical knowledge and stage of practice, this post may be offered as a trainee Band 7 while you develop the skills and knowledge required to meet the expectations set out for our ACP standards. The person specification is included in this pack, and this sets out the experience and attributes that we need in this key role. We know that not everyone who may be interested in this role will be able to demonstrate all the requirements that we have specified and may be deterred from applying. If that applies to you, but you still feel you have the potential and belief that you could make a positive impact in this role, please consider applying.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be practising autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within acute services to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout Surgical acute services. The post holder will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations across a service area. The post holder will deliver 80% clinical component to their role and 20% related to appraisal clinical audit, teaching, self-development, development of the service and research.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage; New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City; Hertford County, Hertford. We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know. We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the band 8A and 7 in the applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

• Relevant registered professional qualification
• MSc Advanced Practice
• Advanced Non-medical prescribing
• ALS
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Recognised leadership qualification
• ALS Instructor

Previous Experience

• Significant experience in specialism, including successful completion at trainee Advanced Practitioner level or equivalent
• Established Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner, relevant experience of service transformation
• Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
• Evidence of ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback
• Implementation of audit/research recommendations
• Evidence of audits undertaken and outcomes
• Evidence of presentations at local/national levels
• Experience in recruitment and retention matters, staff appraisal and performance management
• Commitment to the ongoing implementation of the Trust nursing and midwifery strategy
• In-depth understanding of quality issues including clinical governance

Skills

• Excellent communication skills: interpersonal, written and verbal
• Confidence to adapt to an evolving and changing service.
• Proven leadership skills, with a vision to work with others

Knowledge

• Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
• Evidence of supporting others’ development
• Competent and confident approach to practice
• Flexibility around anti-social working patterns
• Ability to synthesise information, consider and evaluate risks and options when making difficult decisions

Values

• Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda.
• Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality, values diversity, and actively leads by example in deploying these qualities.
• Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
• Role model our Trust values every day

Our values

We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.

• Include: We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
• Respect: We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
• Improve: We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.

Committed to our Community

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular, we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us.

We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust. We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognising diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.