Advanced Clinical Practitioner - ALERT team

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the ALERT Team and provide trust wide support to all clinical areas in the management of the deteriorating patient.

We are seeking knowledgeable, innovative and enthusiastic acute care nurses who are interested in advanced clinical assessment and in improving patient safety to all patients at risk of deterioration. You will be specifically involved in implementing the recommendations within the NICE CG50 guidance across the whole trust.

Under the leadership of the Lead Nurses, you will work with a team of senior nurses to provide a 24-hour service. This will include advanced clinical assessment of patients from the cardiothoracic specialty as well as supporting patients who have been discharged from Critical Care and those requiring timely admission to Critical Care. The post holders will be required to undertake 12 hour shifts equally across both days and nights.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioners take an active role in educating and supporting members of the multidisciplinary team through formal and informal educational opportunities as well as seeking to further their own professional development. Experience of teaching and educational delivery would be advantageous.

This advanced level of practice is benchmarked against the Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice (2017) which encompasses four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, management, education & research. You will be required to keep a portfolio to evidence core capabilities. You should be educated to a minimum of a degree level and possess Advanced Skills in Clinical Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing qualifications to Master's Level. ALS qualifications are also desirable.

You should have extensive experience at Band 6/7 in an acute care setting, such as High Dependency, CCU, or Critical Care. You'll need to work autonomously, demonstrating strong initiative, along with excellent communication, clinical, and organisational skills.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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