Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Do you have experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) working with babies, children, and/or young people with complex needs? Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, family-centered care in a supportive, multidisciplinary environment? If so, we would like to hear from you!

Here at Rainbows Children’s Hospice, we provide specialist palliative care and end-of-life support to over 750 Babies, Children, and Young People living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, as well as approximately 3,000 people, including families, siblings, and carers, across the East Midlands. Simply put, we’re here to brighten short lives and support families, wherever they are.

We are seeking an exceptional and organised ACP to join our incredible and dedicated Specialist Palliative care team at Rainbows Children’s Hospice, covering all 5 counties of the East Midlands: Hospice, Hospital and Community. In this vital role, you will provide advanced clinical expertise, contribute to symptom management, lead on end of life care and work closely with families to ensure the best quality of care for the babies, children and young people in our care. You will also support the Head of Palliative Care in managing, leading and introducing new services within the Hospice and manage a team of CNS’s and unregistered professionals.

You will be based at the Hospice in Loughborough and be required to travel across the East Midlands covering all 5 counties: Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.

Hours of work: This role will be between the hours of 8:00am and 8:00pm, on a rota covering 7 days a week. There will be a requirement to be on the on-call rota.

Our Benefits:

• Free onsite parking at the Hospice, Lark Rise, Loughborough.
• Eligibility to join blue light card discount scheme.
• Bupa Cashback plan.
• Life Assurance.
• 27 days holiday.
• Plus bank holiday allowance but expectation to work bank holidays in this role.
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• Access to occupational health.
• Opportunity for current NHS pension scheme members to transfer their membership.
• Contributory pension scheme or Salary sacrifice pension scheme.
• Affordable meals at the Hospice, Lark Rise, Loughborough.

About the role:

Be responsible for the daily care of Babies, Children & Young People resident in the Hospice and those receiving end of life care within the hospitals and community across the East Midlands. Some of the key responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• To have lead nursing responsibility for a defined caseload of Babies, Children and Young People with Palliative and end of life care needs within the hospice, hospital and community.
• Be an independent prescriber & support the prescribing/transcribing process.
• To professionally support staff within the hospice, hospital and community to ensure that child’s needs are assessed, care planned, implemented and evaluated, and that there is consultation and involvement of child/parents and carers.
• Liaison with staff and services within Hospital both Paediatrics and Neonates to identify and facilitate the transfer plan and subsequent ongoing care needs of Babies, Children & Young People.
• To be a member of the senior nurse team, demonstrating effective leadership skills and taking part in the on-call rota.

Further responsibilities in the role of an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at Rainbows can be found by downloading the Job Description.

What we’re looking for:

• Qualifications: Advanced Clinical Practitioner AND/OR MSc, Current registration with NMC/HCPC/GPC, Non-medical prescriber, History taking and clinical examination qualification.
• Experience: Significant Post Registration paediatric palliative care experience, Demonstrative track record working with own paediatric/neonatal client base, managing the assessment, treatment and discharge of patients and the ability to work in partnership with a range of other professionals including health, social care and education.
• Excellent Communication Skills: The ability to effectively engage both verbally and written with team members, nurses, and families in a sensitive and professional manner as well as manage challenging conversations effectively and with compassion.
• Effective organisational Skills: Strong ability to prioritise tasks and manage competing demands within a fast-paced care environment.

Further requirements can be found by downloading the Person Specification.

For further information about this role and the responsibilities please contact Jo Woolley, Head of Palliative Care.

To apply for the role please click ‘apply now’ to complete an online application form. If you require an alternative method of applying or would like to discuss reasonable adjustments further, please contact the people team.

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and barring Service Check) and pre-employment checks.

We are an inclusive organisation, from our trustees and team members to our children and young people. We treat all job applicants equally regardless of class, age, disability, gender identity or gender expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or any other equality characteristic. We particularly encourage applications from individuals who are underrepresented in the Health and Social care sector.