Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 153-ME03334
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bournemouth
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Unsocial hours
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cardiac Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cardiac Advanced/ Enhanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP/ECP) and nurse specialist team
The team is currently made up of highly skilled cardiac ACPs and specialist nurses in electrophysiology, heart failure and acute coronary syndrome. We are currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated cardiac ACP to join and help lead our team through transformation of services at University Hospital Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.
The team supports all aspects of patient flow through the cardiac department from admission to discharge including management of the outpatient pathway and on-going patient support.
As a successful candidate you will have experience in the management of patients with a variety of cardiac conditions requiring timely intervention. You will have excellent communication and leadership skills which will be essential for service development and team support.
The position will require the post holder to work in a variety of settings within the cardiac directorate as well as supporting front door services. This will involve hospital admission avoidance opportunities through same day emergency care (SDEC) and hospital at home.
The shift patterns and times will vary according to the needs of the service
Base Location: Bournemouth
Interview date: 7th August 2024
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals for the cardiology service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated
individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
To provide clinical leadership to the cardiac ACP/ECP and specialist team. To work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the team across the directorate
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
There is a planned move for this service anticipated during 2024, 2025 when acute services will relocate to Bournemouth site . Upon relocation of the role/service, excess mileage allowance / reimbursement will not apply, and any travel between the postholder’s home and work base will be classified as a commute. Any other changes unrelated to this, will be handled in line with Trust/National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the ACP service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Please see attached job description for further details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice
- Non-medical independent and supplementary prescriber Budget Management Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice Recognised cardiac specific qualification R
Desirable criteria
- Recognition as Advanced Practitioner by the National Centre for Advancing Practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience working independently at a Band 7 clinical role within cardiology
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable leadership and nursing experience at senior level in cardiology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Peter Uren
- Job title
- Lead Cardiac ANP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 6733
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