A Vacancy at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Are you a highly motivated individual? Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you looking for a rewarding position?
We are excited to invite you to apply for the role of Advanced Clinical Practitioner or Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner post (under annex 21) to join the ACP Team based at Ormskirk Hospital.
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust provides healthcare in hospital and the community to 258,000 people across Southport, Formby and West Lancashire.
Surgical Care is provided at Southport and Formby District General Hospital and Ormskirk and District General Hospital. The Ormskirk site also includes Womend and Childrens, Endoscopy, Medicval Day Unit as well as Elective and step down Surgical and Trauma Orthopaedic inpatient wards. This role also supports the resusitation team cover at Ormskirk.
The post holder will be employed and supported by the Surgical Division but be based within Ormskirk Hospital. The post holder will have undertaken, or already be working towards a Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice and have or be in the process od developing competencies specific for the role to enable them to work independently and autonomously in clinical practice.
The post is based at Ormskirk Hospital and will join the exising team of ACPs suported by the Surgical Clinical Teams.
The post holder will:
• Have an advanced knowledge of Clinical Care in an acute setting
• Will support any resusitation emergency response on site
• Function as a competent clinical practitioner assessing and managing complex patients and their families as an integral part of the team
• Develop locally agreed advanced skills in response to service and clinical demand
• Will have successfully completed a non-medical prescribing course and demonstrate ability to apply principles of therapeutics and safe prescribing
• Work as part of the Suregical Division to provide site clinical cover for patients as part of the appropriate rota within Surgery. This may include rotation to nights and seven day working
• Undertake transfers of selected complex patients between hospital departments for diagnostic and treatment purposes
• Initiate and participate in audit and research projects relevant to the specialty
• Will be accountable for his/her actions and act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct/ Health Care Professionals Council Code of Conduct
• Will act in accordance with the local Trust and statutory guidelines and policies
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
For more information, please see attached Job Description.
Advertising date: 11th October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2024
Shortlisting date: 1st November 2024
Interview date: TBC
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Oct 2024
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