Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and driven Advanced Clinical/Nurse Practitioner to join our established team. You may be expected to work cross site between our emergency and elective hub. As part of the emergency surgical team, you will be assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting to our emergency and ambulatory departments and continuing high quality care for our surgical inpatients. At our Elective Surgical Hub, you will use your assessment skills to provide clinical care to our post operative patients. Our innovative Elective Surgical Hub at our King George's site is one of eight pilot sites nationally to develop our current services and have already been granted £14m to expand our theatres, upgrade our staff facilities and double the number of recovery beds. If you feel that you are dedicated to providing high quality evidenced-based care then we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Nurse/Clinical Practitioner (ANP) will work as part of the Surgical team, using specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare independently to patients. The ANP is accountable for the management of patients on surgical wards and in the Surgical Assessment Unit.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we’ve been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Advanced Nurse Practitioner PgDip
2. Registered nurse with the NMC/ other ACP regulatory body
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
3. Significant experience in relevant technical field / speciality.
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.