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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Closed for applications on: 26-Feb-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 26-Feb-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's and St Thomas' sites
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 18 months (12 - 18 months secondment)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.45 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a inc. HCA(pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Inpatient Services
- Interview date
- 14/03/2024
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The purpose of this trainee post is to cultivate the professional development of a registered nurse with substantial experience, augmenting their skills and knowledge to proficiently administer advanced patient care. This encompasses adeptness in assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment. Additionally, the role necessitates a focus on patient-centric engagement, consultation and negotiation.
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of practice within their field of clinical speciality and scope of practice as defined by the individual post’s role outline. This is provided separately.
Advert closing: 25th February 2024
Interview date: 11th March 2024
Advert
Advanced clinical practice is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by a Master’s level award that encompasses the four practice pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research/ Quality Improvement (QI), with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competence.
Advanced clinical practice involves the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative shared solutions to enhance people’s experience and improve outcomes.
This definition therefore requires that health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice will exercise autonomy and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk, holding accountability for their decisions.
The post holder will be of an appropriate profession as defined in the person specification. They will also have a minimum of a Level 7 (120 credits) award at Post Graduate Diploma (PgDip) or full Masters (MSc) in Advanced Clinical Practice, with an approved Higher Education Institute (HEI). The Trainee must complete the Masters programme in its entirety as well as successfully complete the programme within the set time frame in order to achieve an 8a.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Professional / Statutory Registration
Essential criteria
- A registered nurse professional
Qualifications / Education
Essential criteria
- Post Graduate Diploma (PgDip) (180 credits which must include Non-medical prescribing, Advanced Physical Assessment and Applied Pathophysiology or Masters (MSc) qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice
- If legislation, role and scope of post applied for (depending on base profession), have an independent prescribing qualification
- Mentorship, supervision and assessment qualification or equivalent
- Evidence of recent academic study
Desirable criteria
- Certificated speciality courses
- Teaching qualification or equivalent
- Leadership Course
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of working in a Clinical Response Team / CCOT
- Evidence of broad clinical experience in Critical Care / Emergency Department
- Evidence of providing education; teaching, mentorship, supervision and assessment of clinical practice of staff
- Experience of teaching patients and others including health promotion, prevention and orientation
- Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level within the specialist area delivering effective patient focused care
- Proven evidence of delivering change management, leadership skills and autonomous practice
- Evidence of research, education leadership, Quality Improvement, stakeholder engagement and influencing the development and improvement of practice, patient care, patient safety and service delivery
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of financial management
Skills / Knowledge / Ability
Essential criteria
- Evidence of leadership in multi-professional working
- Excellent written and advanced verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage change and conflict, ensuring resolution with positive outcomes, with use of negotiation skills
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research / guidelines into the development of local pathways of care
- Ability to develop working relationships locally, regionally and nationally
- Ability to manage change and conflict, ensuring resolution with positive outcomes, with use of negotiation skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Val Osborne
- Job title
- Clinical Response Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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