Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and driven Advanced Clinical/Nurse Practitioner to join our established vascular team.
You may be expected to work cross site as part of the vascular surgical team and will be assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting to our emergency and ambulatory departments and continuing high quality care for our vascular surgical inpatients.
You will be required to see patients that have been referred from either site and discuss these referrals with the registrars and Consultants. You will review patients in the outpatient setting and manage your own workload. 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 Vascular Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) will work as part of the Vascular Surgery team, using specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare to vascular patients and support the vascular consultants.
The ANP is accountable for the management of patients
on surgical and medical wards and in the outpatient clinic setting under the supervision of vascular consultants.
The post holder will act as a role model, delivering advanced practice and promoting clinical
effectiveness in care. He/she will be required to work and support the vascular team in delivering assessment, clinical examination making and prescribing. They will contribute to the planning of care and treatment, health promotion and safe admission or discharge of patients and with their follow-up care.
The post holder will work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team and will play an integral role in the operational/strategic development of the service.
The post holder will promote and facilitate evidence-based practice and clinical audit and research within the Trust.
The post holder will work collaboratively with other health care professionals and disciplinaries and provide leadership and education to others.
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.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 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.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a 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.
The majority of our 8,400 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.
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/Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council or AHP equivalent
2. PG Diploma in Advanced Practice
Desirable criteria
3. Relevant teaching qualification
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Knowledge of their specialist clinical field
5. Experience of working within speciality.
6. Knowledge of issues and developments in speciality specific area of practice.
Desirable criteria
7. Leadership qualification
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.
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
Essex
RM7 0AG
Telephone 01708 435000 5936