Advanced Nurse Practitioner - iMobile Critical Care Outreach

Advanced Nurse Practitioner - iMobile Critical Care Outreach Band 8a

Main area Critical Care Outreach (iMobile) Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts including Long days, nights, weekends and bank holidays.) Job ref 213-DivisionC-

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital Town London Salary £64,156 - £71,148 per annum including HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 02/11/:59

Job overview

We are delighted to announce a vacancy within the dynamic iMobile Critical Care Outreach Team at our Denmark Hill site, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking a passionate, highly skilled, and experienced Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in Critical Care Outreach to join our forward thinking team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a service that delivers expert critical care support across the hospital to deteriorating patients, making a tangible impact on patient outcomes. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience as Critical Care Outreach Nurse, alongside evidence of academic training and competencies that demonstrate practice at an advanced level within Critical care outreach.

Main duties of the job

• As an ACP you will be practising autonomously providing expert care for a complex group of patients. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the site.

You will be able to deliver skills in advance practice whilst recognising the limits of your clinical competence and seeking guidance from the medical team.

Facilitate the provision of a highly efficient critical outreach, responsive to the needs of the patients and the organisation.

In conjunction with the iMobile Leads you will have the responsibility to support developments in Clinical Governance and to modernise services.

The post holder will be a strong clinical leader and autonomous practitioner providing expertise to clinical staff across the organisation, and where necessary lead the iMobile team.

The post holder will be an exemplary role model and expert clinical practitioner and promote the trust values.

Provide professional advice to all areas of the organisation concerning deteriorating patients. Participate in service development and delivery: including policy development, training, clinical governance, and risk.

The post holder will deliver a 90% clinical component to their role and 10% related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, continuous professional development and research.

Working for our organisation

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person centred, digitally enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A detailed job description and personal specification is attached to this advertisement as a PDF. Personal Specification is also outlined in the role requirements within this advertisement.

Person specification Skills and competancies

• Able to prioritise workload
• Provide patients centred care, involving in decision making around care
• Work as part of a team but has ability to work alone
• Enthusiasm for advancing practice in nursing, critical care outreach and deteriorating patient care.
• Good communicator both written and verbal
• Computer literate. Good working knowledge of Microsoft packages including word, excel and power point. Ability to develop these further
• Able to produce and analyse reports relating to CCOT service and deteriorating patients

Knowledge and Experience

• Evidence of undertaking audit & research
• Significant experience in multi speciality hospital: neuro, haematology, liver, renal and cardiac.
• Experience of teaching and presenting regularly in previous post, confident to deliver this to MDT.
• Experience of people management and leadership in previous role
• Experience of leading in emergency situations
• Experience in planning and delivering care to deteriorating patients
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to lead teams
• Experience writing policies, SOPs or guidelines
• Experience in leading quality improvement initiatives in previous role.
• Experience of managing service budget
• Previous experience in an ACP role

Education and Qualifications

• Appropriate Professional registration - NMC Adult Nurse
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice as defined by HEE framework for ACP or MSc in relevant subject with ACP status via portfolio route.
• ALS provider
• Qualification in Advanced assessment and clinical decision making
• Non medical prescriber, with evidence of scope of practice within critical care outreach.
• Intensive care nursing course with associated step competency framework for adult critical care nurses - Or equivalent.
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Teaching/ instructing qualification or experience (e.g. GIC, iLSi, Alert or iRescue trainer, HEI lecturing)
• Evidence of National outreach forum Enhanced and Advanced competencies or equivalent.
• ALS instructor
• Human Factors training
• Quality improvement training
• Simulation or debriefing training course

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.

Contact details

Name Emma Madine Job title Lead Nurse Email address Telephone number

Please contact to discuss the role or arrange an informal visit.