Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint 0.37 WTE Advanced PaediatricNurse Practitioner (or equivalent with Master's degree in advanced clinical nursing practice and relevant paediatric experience) to join our existing team of Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners.

We are inviting applications form caring, enthusiastic, reliable, flexible, and motivated individuals with excellent clinical and managerial skills who arecommitted to ongoing learning and development and competent at ensuring children, young people and their families receive safe, high quality, optimum care from staff who feel valued and an essential part of the team.

The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioners play a lead role in the running of our established children and young people's observation area (ChObs) accepting referrals directly from GP's, Midwives and from the Paediatric Emergency Department. They are also responsible for providing support to sick and critically ill children and young people, supporting nursing and medical staff to care for these patients.

Successful candidates will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team taking a lead on co-ordination of dynamic testing which takes place within thedepartment. They will assist in the promotion and delivery of key training and education, developing unit initiatives and service development.

An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of Children's Barred Lists is required for this post., The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (APNP) is competent at undertaking advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries using assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. By case managing patients, including independently ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing, the APNP will safely and effectively provide care for paediatric patients and their families admitted to the Paediatric wards.

The APNP, although clinical approximately 80% of the time, also has a senior clinical leadership role within the Directorate, striving to constantly improve nursing care on the wards through developing new initiatives, undertaking audit and an active role in education, mentorship and supervision.

The post holder will work closely with the Matron and Directorate Manager, Paediatrics and the senior paediatric team to ensure both the Directorate's local governance agenda and the national agenda for nursing and children is fully met

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Community Services

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

Specialist Regional Services

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018

o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)

o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme