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Advanced Paediatric or Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area Paediatrics and Neonates Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Secondment: 12 months (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8 week rolling rota in place including nights and weekends.) Job ref 409-S7300096-A
Site Ormskirk Hospital Town Ormskirk Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 07/11/2025 23:59 Interview date 24/11/2025
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Job overview
Advanced Paediatric or Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Fixed Term / Secondment opportunity - 12 months.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint an Advanced Paediatric or Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to join our existing team of Advanced Paediatric / Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
The Advanced Paediatric Nurse Practitioner plays a lead role in the running of our established Paediatric Assessment and Observation Unit (PAOU) accepting referrals directly from GP’s, Midwives and from the Paediatric Emergency Department. They are also responsible for providing support to sick and critically ill children and young people, supporting nursing and medical staff to care for these patients.
The Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner plays a lead role in the continued development of our Neonatal Unit which is a Level 2, 10 cot Unit with 1x IC cot, 1x HDU cot, 8 x Special care and 4 x Transitional care cots.
A full induction programme will be offered.
An Enhanced DBS Certificate, with the checking of Children’s Barred Lists is required for this post.
This will be a competency-based interview, and applicants will be required to complete assessment tasks as part of this process.
Main duties of the job
The Advanced Paediatric or Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (APNP / ANNP) is competent at undertaking advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries using assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. By case managing patients, including independently ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing, the APNP / ANNP will safely and effectively provide care for paediatric patients / Neonates and their families admitted to the Paediatric / Neonatal wards.
The APNP / ANNP, although clinical approximately 80% of the time, also has a senior clinical leadership role within the Directorate, striving to constantly improve nursing care on the wards through developing new initiatives, undertaking audit and an active role in education, mentorship and supervision.
The post holder will work closely with the Matron and Directorate Manager, Paediatrics and the senior paediatric team to ensure both the Directorate’s local governance agenda and the national agenda for nursing and children is fully met.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure you have read through the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Proposed Interview date: W/C 24th November 2025
Please note, this post may close earlier than advertised if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Person specification
Qualifications
* RSCN/RN Child
* Evidence of life-long learning
* Degree in Advanced Clinical Nursing, Preferably Paediatric or Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practice
* APLS / PLS / NLS certified
* Masters Degree in advanced Clinical Nursing Practice
* Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
* APLS / NLS instructor
* RN (adult)
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant years recent relevant experience in acute/community paediatrics or Neonates (Annex 21)
* Able to recognise and implement appropriate management to a critically ill child / neonate
* Demonstrate ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
* Evidence of multidisciplinary / multi-agency working
* Evidence of change management experience
* Safeguarding Children experience and sound working knowledge of and ability to implement the Safeguarding and Child in Need agenda.
* Ability to develop fully staff potential through facilitating training, development and education initiatives.
* Working knowledge of all components of clinical governance, including risk management, audit, research, clinical standards, policies, protocols, education, training and human resources
* Clinical credibility and expert specialist knowledge of children’s and neonatal nursing
* Working knowledge of current national and local legislation/guidance / NSFs / policies in health, professional nursing issues and children’s services agenda
* Advanced knowledge and skills to initiate and evaluate research based practice
* Ability to influence and work together with multidisciplinary / multi-agency teams at a strategic / senior operational level
* Ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
* Children’s ITU or HDU experience for APNP
Skills
* Demonstrate ability to practise advanced clinical skills
* Clinical assessment, planning and management skills, able to case manage, including ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing (if completed NMP)
* Excellent organisational skills
* Quality/excellence focused
* Ability to work autonomously
Thank you for considering an application to work for Mersey West Lancashire NHS Trust. MWL is an exciting and forward-thinking NHS Trust who are one of the best places to work for in England.
Given sometimes we receive a high volume of applications to work for us, please be aware, that we may close a vacancy earlier than stated should a sufficient number of applications be received from which a shortlist can be confirmed. Therefore, you are advised to apply at your earliest convenience.
The Trust may contact you during the recruitment process for your feedback on your experience. We always aim for continuous improvement in our practice.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
We actively cultivate a professional environment of fairness, equality, dignity, and respect for all individuals. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and value the unique skills, perspective and experience you bring. We are grounded in the belief that diversity enhances our collective strength, fostering innovation and excellence within our workforce. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we commit to offering an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
If you are having difficulty completing an online application, or require any disability reasonable adjustments, to the application process, please contact Recruitment@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk
We also commit to offering an interview to all armed forces veterans who meet the minimum criteria for the job (the essential criteria) listed in the personal specification. If you wish to apply under this Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please indicate this on the online application form.
The Trust operates anonymous shortlisting where no personal information about you, including your name or personal details are shared with the recruiting manager. No equality information is shared at any time during the recruitment process with the recruiting manager or other people involved in the decision-making process.
The equality monitoring information you provide is used in the following situations: to review our recruitment practices; where a job is limited to a specific person to verify their eligibility to apply; and to offer disability reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Following the recent update on UK immigration policy for those on a Health and Care Visa or Skilled Worker Visa, please check your eligibility before applying for this post as we may be unable to provide sponsorship.
eVisa Update
For successful candidates on selected work and study visa routes, who have completed and paid for their applications will no longer receive a visa vignette in passport as evidence of their permission to enter the UK. Instead, you will be issued with an eVisa only, which is accessed by creating a UKVI account.
Before travelling to the UK, we advise applicants to:
* Understand how to generate an eVisa share code
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Please note if applicable, applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment.
If you have not already done so, you are therefore encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service to which a small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
Flexible Working
We actively support flexible working patterns throughout MWL. Changes made to the NHS Terms and Conditions of Service Handbook mean that:
* All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
* There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
* Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, we will consider requests for flexible working. We would also encourage you to also discuss flexible working options at interview stage.
Working for Team MWL
Staff recognition is especially important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Employee of the month. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
The Trust is a non-smoking across all our sites. Failure to follow this rule could lead to disciplinary action. For more information, see the Smoke Free NHS website.
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.
Additional Information
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are We are KIND, We are OPEN, We are INCLUSIVE, which can be found here.
An applicant guide to help and support you with your application and what to expect during your recruitment journey can be accessed in the supporting documents.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team MWL very soon.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Shirley Coward Job title Matron Email address shirley.coward@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk Telephone number 01695 656287
Additional information
Dr Vicki Nesbitt. Paediatric Consultant / Clinical Director
Victoria.nesbitt@merseywestlancs.nhs.uk
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