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Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner /Advanced Clinical Practitioner

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Posting date: 12 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: Successful 8a applicants will remain on their current pay point
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 12 May 2024
Location: Oldham, OL1 1NL
Company: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6138335/236-OCO-NM231-24

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you a Band 7 or 8a Paediatric / Children's Nurse looking for a new challenge? Do you have a desire to work in a ‘great’ workplace with remarkable people who make a difference every day? If this is you then we would love you to come and work with us and see for yourself.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 8a Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner (APNP) / Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to work within the Children’s Community Nursing Team (CCNT) in Oldham. This is a part time post of 19 hours (over 3 working days). Successful candidates must have demonstrable experience at Band 7 or 8a and must hold an MSc in Advanced Paediatric Nursing Practice (ambulatory care) or MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.

The APNP / ACP service is a new and evolving nurse led service. The successful candidate will be working predominately within a clinic environment at the Integrated Care Centre with scope to offer home visits where identified.

Community experience is desirable however consideration will be given to applicants without should suitable evidence be provided.

The postholder will work as part of the CCNT, working closely with key stakeholder partners from community, acute secondary and tertiary settings, local authority and the voluntary sector.

The post holder will demonstrate a highly developed an expert knowledge, in-depth experience and clinical skills within domain of paediatric nursing. They will embrace and challenge the depth and breadth of current and future professional practice, exercising a higher level of professional autonomy. A highly visible profile is expected, in order to provide clinical and professional leadership, promoting nursing via advanced practice, research activity and publication.

The post holder will be instrumental in initiating and leading change, and embrace the responsibility of professional leadership and advice, in both the development and coordination of children's community services across a range of teams and clinical networks.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
• Provide advanced clinical input and leadership to a range of topics according to NCA priorities including ambulatory care and the future development of Children's Community Nursing services
• Act in a clinically autonomous way to develop, lead and implement appropriate nurse led services for children and young people
• Provide a visible and accessible points of contact for patients, carers and key stakeholders, ensuring high standards of individual patient care
• Work as an autonomous clinician in a defined area to develop and provide experts clinical advice, support and care to children and young people with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems and inconsistent signs and symptoms
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise demands and respond in a timely manner to the unpredictable and often emotionally challenging nature of clinical activity and service issues as they present
• Act as a resource to all staff in delivery of clinical care to patients
• Work across professional boundaries providing expert clinical knowledge
• Provide professional nursing / clinical leadership across professional boundaries ensuring appropriate structures are in place to support nursing staff at all levels
• Ensure adherence to the highest possible standards of professional conduct and behaviour at all times, demonstrating the trust values

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months. Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.

The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/


This advert closes on Sunday 28 Apr 2024

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