Job summary
Are you a qualified Emergency Nurse Practitioner with interest or experience in paediatric emergency care?

We are looking for an autonomous practitioner with an enthusiasm and motivation for providing the highest quality care to the children attending the Bristol Children's Emergency Department.

The Children's Emergency Department at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children sees around 50000 children from Bristol and the surrounding area. We are the major trauma centre for the South West of England. As the tertiary regional Children's Hospital we have many different medical and surgical specialities based within the Children's Hospital. As an autonomous Nurse Practitioner in the Children's Emergency Department you will be have the opportunity to utilise your clinical skills and expertise seeing a diverse variety of presentations from the whole spectrum of specialities. There are also opportunities to be involved in audit, research and ongoing departmental developments.

The role encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice (clinical practice, education, leadership and research) and the post holder will be supported to deliver the Trust objectives through behaviours which demonstrate our Trust values.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will act as a senior healthcare professional within the Children's Emergency Department and provide support to the Enhanced Practitioner workforce in Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, and be identifiable, highly visible, and accessible to patients, carers and staff for assistance advice and support.

Successful applicants will need as a minimum to have successfully completed or at the end-point of a recognised course for autonomous practice in the emergency setting. They will work amongst a dynamic, enthusiastic and supportive multidisciplinary team, assessing and diagnosing children that attend the department with illness and injury. We are committed to ensuring ongoing professional development providing opportunities for this both internally and externally.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy

Person Specification
Education and Registration
Essential

• Active Professional Registered Qualification with a Professional body e.g., NMC, HCPC
• Post registration qualifications/CPD in area of practice as a minimum i.e. Paediatric Emergency care
• Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Level 6 or above
• Proven leadership experience
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Desirable

• Non-Medical prescriber (If appropriate for statutory profession and role).

Knowledge Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Hold post registration qualification/CPD as a minimum for area of practice. This is recommended to be the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner Level 6 qualification
• Utilise advanced clinical skills within an interdepartmental and / or multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients within the Children's Emergency Department receive holistic, timely and high-quality clinical care.
• Exercise autonomous clinical practice, high levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care, in accordance with their scope of practice.
• Draw on the four pillars of practice to lead and influence improvements to standards of care.
• Develop a culture of organisational learning to inspire future and existing staff.
• Support or Lead on the improvement of clinical care though clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and research in collaboration with clinical and academic colleagues.

Experience
Essential

• Excellent organisation and leadership skills
• Experience of management of the paediatric patient within an emergency setting Experience of involvement in research and audit at a local level within current or previous roles. Ability to interpret and apply best practice and promote its use with others A sound understanding of professional priorities and issues
• Ability to act independently, resolve complex clinical situations and have good decision-making skills
• Experience of involvement in research and audit at a local level within current or previous roles.
• Ability to interpret and apply best practice and promote its use with others
• A sound understanding of professional priorities and issues

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient and staff care, health and wellbeing are continually evaluated and improved
• Professional approach to work and instil confidence
• Team leadership responsibility
• Able to work within a team or independently
• Able to be flexible within the role and prioritise the needs of the service
• Able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust values
• Communicating and working across the wider system

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).