Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Working autonomously and alongside the clinical lead for nutrition they will be part of the complex nutritional needs MDT, joining an experienced and highly motivated team including nutrition nurses, a dedicated nutrition pharmacist and dietitian. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the nursing assessments of patients care needs and support with the development, implementation, and evaluation of nutritional programmes of care., This is a new post you will: Manage the Nutrition Nurse Service and contribute to service development. Attend the Feeding Issue MDT which expects referrals from around the region. Support patients who are receiving enteral and parenteral nutrition in hospital. Provide regular outpatient clinic for nutrition support across site (all three hospitals). Develop a pathway to support patients who attend the Emergency Department with feeding issues to help provide care/signposting and prevent unnecessary admissions. Deliver education and training for patients and staff in regards to nutrition. Work with the transition team to ensure safe and smooth transition of paediatric patients into the adult services. Work with Clatterbridge Cancer Centre to support and enhance the skills, training of their Nutrition Nurses and support patients at CCC in need of enhanced nutritional services Work with other members of the Nutrition Team to ensure the Intestinal Failure National register is maintained and updated on a regular basis. Ensure all Nutritional device related policies and patient information leaflets are up to date and evidence based by the Nutrition Team, They will provide specialist nursing support and management of patients receiving total parenteral nutrition, and assessment for and management of those receiving enteral tube feeding. This will include IV access insertion and management, endoscopic enteral tube placement, clinical decision making regarding parenteral and enteral nutrition support. The post holder will motivate staff to provide high standards of care by acting as a role model. They will provide expert professional and clinical care advice to the patients, carers, and multi-disciplinary team. They will be responsible for providing specialist education and training programmes for health care professionals and other professional groups. They will be responsible for ensuring a robust system is in place for data collection and audit. Their expertise and skill will enable the role and service to develop as a result of annual audit, reflection of practice, outcome from datix incidences and innovations and advances without their practice.

• Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) or started the MSc ACP pathway/programme and committed to completing within an agreed time frame: Note: Post holder will be in a training post (Annex 21) until evidence of completion of MSc ACP is provided.
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Relevant post registration qualification/equivalent
• Prescriber
• Evidence of participation in audit and research, Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality
• Evidence of effective management
• Evidence of effective leadership skills
• Evidence of staff development and can demonstrate knowledge regarding provision and development of education programmes
• Evidence of change management
• Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments, Understanding and application of healthcare governance
• Has an up-to-date Advanced Clinical Practice portfolio, Excellent communication skills
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing, 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, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  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.

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 pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.