Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6886907
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stepping Hill Hospital
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Spinal
Band 8a
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an ACP to join us in the spinal service and part of the Trauma & Orthopaedic team.
We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic practitioner to support the delivery of the spinal service.
The post will work alongside a multidisciplinary team consisting of 4 Consultants, a Specialist Registrar and supporting team.
As an Organisation, we are invested in our ACP work force and recognise that protected time is paramount within the ACP job plan that will then support delivery within 4 pillars of practice’
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework provided by the MSc programme and specialty qualifications.
- Work autonomously as an ACP within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices.
- Deliver individualised patient care, with direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation/ diagnostic procedures, and diagnosis of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
- Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode.
- Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources
- Participate in patient reviews, and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Utilise scope of advanced practice to undertake Non-Medical Prescribing role and advise on medicine management issues associated with the patient group, working within Trust policy for Medicines Management.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Utilise advanced knowledge and skills relating to the speciality to provide specialist advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team based on patient assessment. Provide guidance to staff, patients and their families and carers on pathway navigation.
- Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service.
- Use professional judgement to act as an advocate for patients to ensure a patient focused approach to the delivery of care. Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment, consent, and management. Escalate any concerns via the nursing / professional structures as required.
- Work towards safe and timely discharge and/ or transfer of care of patients from or between hospitals and services and healthcare professionals, ensuring barriers to discharge / transfer are identified and acted upon appropriately.
- Report and raise concerns related to Safeguarding, accessing advice and support as required. Be conversant with Trust policies for safeguarding including the assessment of Mental Capacity, and consideration of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS) and the application of the principles of Prevent (counter terrorism awareness).
- Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas. Identifying any skills or training gaps and escalating to the appropriate ACP Consultant Community, Senior Nurse / Matron / Clinician.
- Undertake training and learning to develop further advanced clinical practice skills required by the service to provide a high standard of patient care.
- Practice within the scope of relevant professional registration (i.e., NMC, HCPC)
- Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients, and their relatives/carers, making reports and liaising as required with medical staff and other members of the multidisciplinary team both verbally and in writing.
- Ensure effective and accurate verbal / written / electronic consultations and handover of patients between healthcare professionals.
- Ensure that high standards of all documentation are maintained, with accurate, complete, and up-to-date information regarding patient care are kept in accordance with Trust record keeping standards.
- Utilise the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills when dealing with complex, sensitive, or emergency situations.
- Organise and plan own day to day workload or activities to meet the demands of the service.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education &Qulification
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration
- Non- Medical prescribing course (in eligible professions)
- MSc in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Teaching or relevant experience qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical practice skills
- Evidence of research and audit
- Evidence of implementing change
- Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience at a senior level (band 6 or above) in community or a relevant speciality area
- Evidence of on-going CPD
- Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
- Ability to work independently.
- Experience of using multidisciplinary approach to patient care
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical practice skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills and able to communicate with MDT
- Able to problem solve and make decisions
- Ability to prioritise tasks, actions and interventions
- Clinical assessment of healthcare needs
- Sound clinical judgment in identifying and ordering diagnostic tests / interventions
- Research and audit awareness
- Able to work as part of a team and autonomously
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
- UK License holder and access to car
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colin Piatt
- Job title
- Lead Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Aspen House
Stepping Hill Hospital
Poplar Grove
Stockport
SK2 7JE
- Telephone
- 01614194720 ext.117081
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