Employer Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Preston Hospital Town Preston Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum, Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 18/05/2025 23:59
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? A remarkable chance has arisen for an Advanced Specialist Practitioner to join our dynamic team of dedicated clinicians in Colorectal Surgery. This role offers a unique opportunity to utilise your advanced skills and knowledge to support patients throughout emergency and elective Colorectal surgical pathways, following Trust and speciality guidelines whilst being supported by registrar and consultant colleagues.This is a perfect opportunity for a qualified individual to work alongside a welcoming and supportive team. Could this be you?
In this role, you'll receive robust support to develop your clinical and leadership skills. We offer a tailor-made development programme designed to match your skill set and experience. You should be educated to master's level in Advanced Clinical Practice. You will benefit from the guidance of a supportive consultant mentor and the opportunity to develop specific competencies.
The role of Colorectal Advanced Specialist Practitioner is a pioneering position that we are proud to support.
Main duties of the job
You will play a vital role in the multidisciplinary care of Colorectal patients, collaborating closely with medical colleagues to oversee both elective and emergency surgical cases, from pre-operative assessments to post-operative recovery.
This position calls for a high level of advanced clinical expertise, where you'll be entrusted with making critical decisions and applying your professional judgement to ensure the best patient outcomes. Your skills and knowledge will be showcased through a portfolio of evidence and clinical competence, complemented by an appropriate MSc qualification.
You will be instrumental in driving improvements to care standards, ensuring adherence to Colorectal guidelines through supervision, clinical audits, and evidence-based practices. As a key leader, you’ll provide professional guidance to colleagues, nurturing a culture of excellence and supporting Physician Associates within the Colorectal service.
Your leadership will extend to championing the implementation of cutting-edge research, integrating new findings into practice and contributing to the growing body of evidence through research and audits. You'll also have a significant role in clinical governance, leading audits, attending strategic meetings, and participating in morbidity and mortality reviews to refine and elevate practice.
Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To practice autonomously with a high level of accountability at a specialist clinical level in the direct delivery of high quality care, making critical clinical decisions based on specialist clinical skills assessment.
Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others and delegating and referring as appropriate to optimise health outcomes and resource use, as well as providing direct support to patients and clients.
To provide clear leadership and direction to support both the medical and nursing teams acting as a role model for the Trust, presenting a positive image to patients and staff.
Advocate and contribute to the development of an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession
planning.
Be an active participant in Morbidity and Mortality reviews and in the investigation of incidents with a focus on shared learning and improvement.
Critically engage in research activity, adhering to good research practice guidance, so that evidence based strategies are developed and applied to enhance quality, safety, productivity and value for money.
Lead on developments within the elective and emergency pathways, championing enhanced recovery and service improvement.
In conjunction with the medical staff, be responsible for co-ordinating the admission, assessment and discharge arrangements for elective and emergency Colorectal patients.
Support any patient speciality on the ward 11 elective pathway in the prescription of medications and basic interventions as required in the absence of the specialist team.
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
* Highly motivated and experienced practitionerwith substantive range of experience within a relevant clinical setting. Broad & advanced knowledge of clinical pathophysiology
* Sound level of knowledge in relation to relevant invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
* Has the knowledge and competence to support safe clinical decision making by interpreting multiple sources of complex infomation
* Broad and advanced knowledge and experience in colorectal conditions and management
* Knowledge of local and national guidelines and agendas relevant to role
* Proven leadership experience including delivering to targets and service improvement.
* Ability to work autonomously
* Ability to manage conflicting pressures to maintain streamline service delivery
* Leadership of teams or change initiatives
* Demonstrates current knowledge of professional and NHS issues and the implication for clinical environment.
* Enthusiasm and drive to improve practice through education and training
* Excellent presentation skills.
* Committed to continuing professional development of self and others
* Experience of clinical research
* Evidence of leading on clinical audit and translation to service development
* Knowledge of more than one area of clinical practice – i.e surgery, medicine, orthopaedics, ITU
* Experience in managing chronic health issues
Qualifications & Education
* Professional clinical qualification or Working towards a specialist qualification
* Non-medical Prescribing Qualification where professionally able to
* BSc in appropriate clinical field
* Masters level study in advanced clinical practice
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Teaching Qualification (7307/Certificate in Education/equivalent) or willing to undertake.
* Advanced Life Support Qualification
* Leadership/Management qualification or willingness to undertake.
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