Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
The aim of this role is to help continue to develop the OPAT pathway. As a band 7 ECP you will help co-ordinate and organise patients suitable for the IV OPAT service, ensuring timely and effective assessment for suitability, recruitment to and oversight of the delivery of IV antibiotics to appropriate patients, including admission avoidance, and early supported discharge. There will be a degree of flexibility around how this role is delivered to support best practice for individual patients initially this service with be based on the treatment investigation unit. The delivery of high quality, effective, integrated and compassionate care is central to this role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Enhanced Clinical Practice qualification, Level 6 or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
2. Supplementary or Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Demonstrable experience of managing a discrete aspect of a patient’s care at an enhanced level of practice with specific knowledge and skills in a general field of expertise.
Desirable criteria
4. Attendance at QI Lite or equivalent quality improvement course.
Skills
Essential criteria
5. Ability to analyse and interpret complex information from patient assessment and interventions, and freedom to act in managing patients ‘care.
Desirable criteria
6. Highly specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality i.e. experience in care and management of Mid and Picc lines
Knowledge
Essential criteria
7. Able to demonstrate highly specialised theoretical and practical, enhanced knowledge of various specialties and common presentations
Desirable criteria
8. An understanding of how OPAT services have been run in other Trusts