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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 November 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

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Contact

Address: Royal Liverpool University Hospital; Mount Vernon Street; Liverpool; Merseyside; L7 8YE
Contact Number: 0151 706 2000

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Open

Ref: 287-AMED-93-26 Vacancy ID: 7835121

Nurse Clinician

Accepting applications until: 07-Apr-2026 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 07-Apr-2026 23:59

Location

Gwefan: Aintree
Cyfeiriad: Lowe Lane
Tref: Liverpool
Cod post: L9 7AL
Major / Minor Region: Merseyside

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent: NA
Oriau: Part time - 30 hours per week (Nights, Twilight's, Middle shifts, Week-Ends and BH's)

Salary

Cyflog: £49,387 - £56,515 Dependant on experience
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 7)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Nurse Clinician Service

Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

Job Summary

§ Provide leadership, advanced clinical support and advice to the Junior Doctors, nursing staff and multidisciplinary team members working within AUH

§ First point of contact for all calls/bleeps made to the junior doctors out of hours

§ Chair and coordinate the out of hours Medical and Surgical doctors’ handover meetings, ensuring they have a beneficial impact on the wellbeing and safety of patients within AUH

§ Take responsibility for own clinical workload. Prioritise work according to clinical need, assessing and treating patients according to their individual requirements

§ Provide specialist clinical skills based on current best practice and evidence based guidelines

§ Responding nurse for the MET team and an advanced life support provider out of hours.

§ Establish and maintain effective communications between Medical/Surgical Doctors, the MET and ward/departments

§ Act as an out of hours helpline for patients on discharge following day surgery

§ Ensure continuous improvement in clinical care standards and that patients are treated with dignity and respect

§ Ensure the delivery of a safe and clean patient care environment within the Clinical Areas attended as part of role

Key responsibilities

Clinical

§ To develop and perform specialist clinical skills based on current best practice and evidence based guidelines.

§ Provide a service within the expanded role of the nurse practitioner

§ To act as the first point of contact for nursing staff who require clinical advice/Medical intervention for a patient “out of hours”; Providing expert clinical advice and performing advanced skills in patient assessment and stabilising patients by initiating treatment and investigations before a doctor’s arrival

§ Provide clinical input and specialist skills to all clinical areas within AUH

§ To act as the responding nurse for the MET team out of hours responding to referrals for acutely ill patients and emergency situations throughout the hospital as part of the Trust Medical Emergency Team.

§ Maintain ALS provider status and act as Team Coordinator at cardiac arrest and emergency calls

§ To take responsibility for own clinical workload as appropriate, assessing and treating patients according to their individual needs. Adopting a holistic and problem solving approach that respects people’s privacy, dignity and individuality.

§ Liaise with medical staff about the condition and treatment of patients

§ To provide and receive complex information that requires empathy and reassurance, communicating where there may be barriers to understanding.

§ Communicate complex and sensitive information to staff, patients and relatives including discussions around ceilings of care and DNACPR decision making

§ Ensures patients views are sought and taken into account in the decision making process and ensure due regard is given to patients customs, values and spiritual beliefs

§ Ensure patient records are maintained and that documentation reflects care provide

§ To act in the best interest of the patients, ensuring a quality service is provided at all times.

§ Respond to user requirements with flexibility and empathy, always maintaining a safe environment

Managerial/Leadership

§ To function as a resource for ward personnel providing leadership and support.

§ Demonstrate good interpersonal/communication skills in a multidisciplinary setting

§ To Chair and coordinate the out of hours Medical and Surgical doctors’ handover meetings, ensuring they have a beneficial impact on the wellbeing and safety of patients within AUH

§ To organise and direct the junior doctors during their on-call working hours, offering support and advice when needed.

§ To support with the coordination of the clinical teams for the wards out of hours ensuring all wards have medical representation and there is a safe and fair allocation of wards in times of staffing shortages

Clinical Governance / Quality

Registered Practitioners have a responsibility to:

§ Maintain current active professional registration

§ Act always in accordance with their professional Code of Conduct and guiding documents

§ Adhere to Trust Policy and Procedure.

§ Provide information or investigates complaints/slash incidents as required. Assists in taking appropriate action to reduce further risk or occurrence

§ Maintain up to date skills and knowledge and maintain awareness of professional issues.

§ Maintain NMC Revalidation requirements

Education and training development

§ In conjunction with the Senior Nurse Clinician/Deputy, participate in development reviews and agree objectives and personal development plans.

§ Maintain own Revalidation requirements in line with NMC guidance.

§ Develop own expert clinical knowledge and participate in the development of clinical knowledge for self and others, through the provision of training and education.

§ Be willing to undertake education at Masters level in clinical examination, diagnostics and non-medical prescribing

§ Ensure compliance with all role essential education and training

§ Maintain and develop expertise within the confines of the expanded role, being aware of own limitations and take personal accountability for own actions and omissions.

§ Participate in the education and development of the multidisciplinary team :-

- Facilitate staff learning within the clinical area.

- Promote and facilitate the development of advanced clinical skills for all grades of staff.

- Act as assessors within the clinical area for staff developing new skills.

- Act as a resource for staff “out of hours” providing them with information regarding any changes to clinical practise and new initiatives.

Person Specification

Job Title:	Nurse Clinician
Band	7	Job Code:

Person Specification
	Qualifications	Essential	Desirable	Assessment
1.	Registered Nurse	√		A/C
2.	Teaching/Assessing Qualification	√		A/C
3.	Advanced Clinical Skills	√		A/C
4.	Advanced Life Support Provider	√		A/C
5.	Education to degree level in Clinical Examination/Diagnostics	√		A/C
6.	Education to Masters level; Clinical Examination/Diagnostics preferable		√	A/C
7.	Non-Medical Prescribing		√	A/C
	Experience	Essential	Desirable	Assessment
8.	Significant Experience working in an acute Hospital setting	√		A/I
9.	Broad range of clinical experience with specific experience in patient assessment and treatments and advanced clinical skills.	√		A/I
	Knowledge
10.	Evidence of Continuous Professional Development	√		A/I
11.	Able to demonstrate and apply specialist knowledge gained through clinical experience	√		A/I
	Skills	Essential	Desirable	Assessment
12.	Able to perform advanced clinical skills in patient assessment and treatments	√		A/I
13.	Able to deal with complex situations and demonstrate leadership and assertiveness skills	√		A/I
14.	Highly developed problem-solving, organisational and decision making skills	√		A/I
15.	Ability to make appropriate clinical decisions and recognise when to escalate for senior support	√		A/I
16.	Ability to demonstrate flexibility, adaptability and use initiative	√		A/I
17.	Able to plan, prioritise and coordinate own clinical workload	√		A/I
18.	Ability to work calmly under pressure	√		A/I
19.	Ability to respond calmly, confidently and quickly in an emergency situation	√		A/I
20.	Ability to work within rapidly changing environment and assist in management of change	√		A/I
21.	Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues and integrate well in a team	√		A/I
22.	IT skills in word processing, spread sheets, e-mail and power-point presentations	√		A/I
	Communication
23.	To provide and receive complex information	√		I
24.	Present factual information and refer questions to others as appropriate	√		I
25.	Able to influence and resolve conflict, overcome resistance through application of communication skills	√		I
	Other	Essential	Desirable	Assessment
26.	Demonstrate involvement in service development project	√		A/I
27.	Ability to motivate, inspire and enthuse others	√		I
28.	Ability to understand and manage the stress of others	√		I
29.	Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary	√		A/I

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18^th birthday.

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 £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (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 0151 706 4666 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.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Meini prawf hanfodol

Registered Nurse
Post-registration Teaching/Assessing Qualification
Advanced Clinical Skills
Advanced Life Support Provider
Education to degree level in Clinical Examination/Diagnostics

Meini prawf dymunol

Education to Masters level; Clinical Examination/Diagnostics preferable
Non-Medical Prescribing

Experience

Meini prawf hanfodol

Significant Experience working in an acute Hospital setting
Broad range of clinical experience with specific experience in patient assessment and treatments and advanced clinical skills.

Knowledge

Meini prawf hanfodol

Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Able to demonstrate and apply specialist knowledge gained through clinical experience

Skills

Meini prawf hanfodol

Able to perform advanced clinical skills in patient assessment and treatments
Able to deal with complex situations and demonstrate leadership and assertiveness skills
Highly developed problem-solving, organisational and decision making skills
Ability to make appropriate clinical decisions and recognise when to escalate for senior support
Ability to demonstrate flexibility, adaptability and use initiative
Able to plan, prioritise and coordinate own clinical workload
Ability to work calmly under pressure
Ability to respond calmly, confidently and quickly in an emergency situation
Ability to work within rapidly changing environment and assist in management of change
Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues and integrate well in a team
IT skills in word processing, spread sheets, e-mail and power-point presentations

Communication

Meini prawf hanfodol

To provide and receive complex information
Present factual information and refer questions to others as appropriate
Able to influence and resolve conflict, overcome resistance through application of communication skills