Job summary
- Main area
- Gastroenterology and Liver
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-NM282-24-P
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Care Organisation
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 p.a. inc.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Liver
Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity within our Gastroenterology Team for a Hepatology Advanced Practitioner.
We are looking for a full time Advanced Clinical Practitioner working Monday to Friday with no unsociable hours. The Hepatology team at Salford encompasses the Liver team, Hepatobiliary Team and Alcohol Care team.
The post holder will take a lead role in the advanced clinical assessment and treatment of patients with liver disease or those at high risk of developing liver disease. They will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. They will work closely with the Hepatology Consultant, Hepatobiliary and Alcohol Care Team.
They will manage hepatological elective work, including day case large volume paracentesis and Haemochromatsis. They will also provide outpatients general hepatology clinics and fixed site community clinics based around elastography technology (Fibroscan). The post holder will provide clinical expertise for developing and enhancing the service. This will be done in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team approach.
Main duties of the job
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner you will:
- Undertake a clinical caseload to an advanced professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
- Develop an extended scope of practice beyond their primary profession.
- Independently Triage Referrals
- Provide outpatient clinics both on Hospital site and one fixed base community.
- The post holder will clinically manage a virtual cohort of patients with Haemochromatosis.
- Offer clinical leadership and managerial support to the Hepatobiliary and Alcohol Care Teams.
- Provide a day case elective large volume paracentesis service.
- Undertake clinical audit and be involved in research opportunities.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult / General Level 1 or 2) or AHP with current HCPC registration
Essential Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Master’s Degree in advanced clinical practice.
- • Significant post registration experience of which experience are within specialty at a senior level
Desirable criteria
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Post basic qualification in specialty
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge within specialty supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- • Significant post registration experience of which experience is within specialty at a senior level
- • Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge within specialty supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in policy and practice change
- Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Effective communicator able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
- • Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Jumi Isibor
- Job title
- Consultant Hepatologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 2065994
- Additional information
or Marie McMahon, Clinical Lead for Gastroenterology.
Louise Nutt, Lead Nurse for Gastroenterology
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