Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our team in Liverpool Orthopaedic and Trauma Service (LOTS). Our service includes the Regional Major Trauma service, Orthopaedic wards as well as a Fracture Clinic. We have a great team and the ACP roles are a new addition to our structure, so there is great opportunity to grow and shape the service. 

The successful candidate will have a passion for the speciality and be an experienced Nurse. They will be supported throughout the training programme and their Masters course by Consultant lead. 

The Masters degree place is secured with Liverpool John Moore University and the candidate/s will commence in September 2024. This will be a training post subject to Annex 21 terms and conditions until achievement of Masters degree has been obtained.

Main duties of the job

Utilising skills, experience and knowledge to improve the experience and outcomes of care for patients by taking the lead in investigations and treatments prescribed.

To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that the 
patients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.

To provide social, emotional and psychological support for patients from 
referral and throughout their treatment.

To deliver expert specialist evidence based care including: development, 
assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidence 
based care for a defined caseload.

To make appropriate referral to consultants/other specialist/members of the multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.

To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally and 
develop strategies to address identified issues. 

To support the training and development of others, especially junior nursing workforce. 

To be highly motivated to work with supervision, be committed to learning as well as taking opportunity to work autonomously within scope of practice and competency. 

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

To maintain personal accountability for professional and ethical actions and
ensure compliance with the standards of professional conduct issued by the relevant regulatory body

To maintain and develop a specialist service for patients within the caseload, ensuring that the treatment and follow up of this group of patients is delivered in a timely manner.

Ensure clinician-led clinics provide for both diagnoses and reporting of subsequent results for identified patients.

To provide teaching as an in-house measure to all medical and clinical staff, not only within the Care Group but also from other services.

To provide a clinician-led clinic service to patients.

To be part of the senior nursing team within the care group and actively advocate and support effective governance processes.

To plan and administer treatment to patients as appropriate and ensure handover of this treatment to community services as necessary.

To provide expert care, advice and support for patients and their relatives/carers and ensure that advice and point of contact is available throughout the patient’s journey.

To refer on to other agencies as appropriate.

To operate as clinical specialist and expert practitioner in issues relating to the identified area of care. To direct and delegate care based on accurate assessment and evaluation.

To take consent for investigative procedures, manipulate equipment and perform advanced clinical skills.

The post holder will be expected to work clinical shifts in a ward environment if necessary

For further information, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

Essential criteria

• Supportive of colleagues
• Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate the team
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Act as role model for staff

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration
• Masters Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline.
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Relevant post registration qualification/equivalent.
• Prescriber
• Evidence of participation in audit and research

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality
• Evidence of effective management
• Evidence of effective leadership skills
• Evidence of staff development
• Evidence of change management
• Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Understanding and application of healthcare governance

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application. 

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. 

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. 

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank  should note that due to the nature of the role,  workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. 

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. 

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.