Advanced clinical practice is right at the heart of paediatric emergency care at Salford Royal, and you will join a team of experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and health professions.

What can we offer you?

A senior clinical role in the delivery of paediatric emergency and short stay observational care to our community.

A role where your experience and skills are valued and you are supported to develop these further by a clinical team consisting of paediatric medical and nurse consultants, emergency medicine consultants and advanced clinical practitioners.

A job plan which has 20% non-clinical time to support you in developing the four pillars of advanced practice and support you in your development. You want to be involved in education? We can support you. You want to get involved in research or maintain skills in adult clinical assessment? We can help you with that too!

Our fantastic benefits include:

Fully funded mandatory courses (APLS etc).

1 full day per month of ACP CPD program.

Support in credentialing with Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

The children and families of Salford value our team, you'll get to work with them, our staff and with a great wider multidisciplinary team.

A visible career pathway through from ACP trainees to Non-medical consultants supporting the delivery of Emergency Care to Children and young people

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly motived and experienced registered healthcare practitioner with advanced practice skills and recognised MSc qualification to join the dynamic and innovative paediatric emergency department and observation and assessment unit as a Paediatric ACP .

The PANDA Unit is the paediatric Emergency Department and Observational and assessment unit at Salford Royal and provides emergency care and observation for around 20,000 children per year. The innovative model has non medical advanced practitioners at the centre of clinical decision making supported by a team of senior clinicians including paediatricians, paediatric emergency and emergency medicine consultants and paediatric consultant nurse.

You will work as part of the existing advanced clinical practitioner team to provide expert nursing support and leadership to the department. The post has a clinical focus partaking in the 24hr advanced clinical practitioner rota providing clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment to children attending Salford Royal.

About us

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 to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - 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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as a 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 2-3 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 receivea 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/

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance.

This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.

Person Specification

Registration & Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse or healthcare professional
• Clinical based Masters Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Supplementary and extended prescriber
• Experience of paediatric emergency care

Desirable

• RCEM Credentialing in Paediatric Emergency Care

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

• Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge in (paediatric emergency care) supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Salford Care Organisation

Stott Lane

Salford

M6 8HD

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