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Job summary

Main area
Stroke Services
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Some weekend work required)
Job ref
236-SCO-P023-24-B
Employer
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Salford Royal
Town
Salford
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/06/2024 23:59

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Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Stroke Services)

Band 8a

Job overview

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will provide highly specialised, professional advice, clinical expertise, and leadership within the Comprehensive Stroke Centre for Greater Manchester located at Salford Royal Hospital.

The expectation would be to develop and strengthen links across interprofessional boundaries to promote excellence in practice. This includes strategic service development aiming to implement and develop optimal care / service provision.

As a Comprehensive Stroke Centre, we provide hyper acute stroke care, intermediate stroke rehabilitation and a wealth of specialist clinic activity. The ACP will engage in ward-based working with rotation throughout the service including clinic activity

The successful candidate will be required to demonstrate advanced skills and competencies to influence and inform the delivery of high-quality care to patients presenting along the Greater Manchester Stroke Pathway.

You are warmly welcome to attend our online event on Wed 5th June from 18.00 to 19.00 which includes a presentation by the stroke team followed by an informal Q&A session to help you in progressing your application for your ideal job of Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Stroke Services)

To attend the event, please complete and submit the Microsoft form using the link below. You will then be sent the meeting ID & password to the online session to your email address.

https://forms.office.com/e/zkx78GSR9M?origin=lprLink

Main duties of the job

  • Demonstrate a high level of complex decision making in relation to the assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation of patient care
  • Assess physiological and psychological functioning when there are complex and/or undifferentiated abnormalities, diseases and disorders and develop monitor and review related treatment plans
  • Plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and/or treatments when there are complex issues and /or serious illness
  • Plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing
  • Develop and maintain communication with people about complex issues and/or in difficult situations
  • Develop oneself and contribute to the development of others
  • Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security
  • Contribute to the improvement of services and engage in service redesign.
  • Contribute to improving quality of care and services
  • Support equality and value diversity
  • Engage in Project Management activities focusing on service development.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.  

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/working-with-us/our-values/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnicity minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone

If you are an International Nurse without a current NMC PIN, please do not apply for this role. To find out more about the current international nursing opportunities available to you here at the NCA, please contact [email protected]

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Full professional registration (HCPC, NMC)
  • MSC Advanced Practice / Applied Health (or equiv)
  • V300 Non-Medical Prescribing
  • • Portfolio of evidence demonstrating clinical, leadership, education, research

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Enhanced clinical skills, ability to work independently
  • Can make operational judgements involving complex facts / situations.
  • Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately.
  • Demonstrates effective communication and negotiation skills.
Desirable criteria
  • • Able to work within a given resource and demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Project Management.
  • • Quality Improvement..
  • • Evidence of effective management and leadership skills.
  • • Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of members of the MDT.
  • • Has experience of interdisciplinary working.
  • • Evidence of engagement I clinical audit.
Desirable criteria
  • • Extensive knowledge of stroke medicine. supplemented by specialist clinical knowledge and CPD
  • • Evidence f involvement in policy and practice change.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardFair Train work experience quality standard - gold standardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerTime to changeStep into healthGM Good Employment Charter

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Thom Luxon
Job title
Non Medical Consultant in Stroke
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 206 64445
Additional information

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