Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Trauma and Orthopaedic Directorate are looking for a Trauma/Fragility Fracture Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team!

A development opportunity will be considered for this position, and dependant on experience the successful candidate will either enter at Band 6, 7 or Band 8A level.

The role will be covering the Royal Stoke site with an expectation to move towards 7 day ACP cover. Following an induction period, you will be predominately ward based with outreach to other specialities or areas for our patients at UHNM and will be responsible for assessing & delivering their treatment needs., You will be expected, after completing your induction period, to work autonomously, providing inpatient care to our patients who are under the care of the trauma team.

You will be expected to be familiar with IT systems and document any care you have provided electronically.

Working with the team, you will initiate and support service development and improve patient experience based on emerging and best practice models of care responding to patient feedback and audit findings

You need to be an enthusiastic, dynamic, proactive, innovative, and highly motivated nurse or AHP. You will have demonstrable knowledge of this field and recent experience within the Trauma& Orthopaedic speciality. You must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills to enable you to work with the multidisciplinary team.

You will have undertaken a masters level qualification.

All applicants will be expected to meet the essential criteria and possess the relevant post registration experience as outlined in the person specification.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.