Paediatric Advanced Critical Care Practitioner

Job overview

The successful post holder will be:

• Employed as an established ACCP, delivering patient-centred care with a high degree of autonomy, independent assessment and clinical decision-making, practicing in line with NHS England’s (NHSE) Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice(formally HEE, 2017), or other recognised service specific credential, their primary professional regulatory body standards and own scope of practice for the service/patient population.
• Fulfil the expectations and core capabilities of an ACCP as set out in the NHSE Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice in England (or other recognised service specific credential), delivering independent clinical practice across the four pillars of advanced practice, with commitment to a culture of life-long learning and continuous professional development, through engagement with clinical supervision and maintenance of an advanced practice professional portfolio.

Main duties of the job

• Work in partnership with patients, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team, to best meet the needs and wellbeing of the patient, delivering high quality evidence-based care within Paediatric Critical Care and Retrieval services. The practitioner will be expected to demonstrate proficiency across the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, namely Clinical, Leadership and Management, Education and Research.
• The practitioner will be expected to work at an advanced level drawing on a diverse range of knowledge and clinical skills, with complex decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions required. This may be on Oxford University Hospital sites, any other hospital, or no-hospital site as part of the SORT retrieval service
• As a qualified ACCP in Paediatric Critical Care the practitioner must be able to work autonomously, delivering safe and effective practice, as part of an MDT
• Must be able to effectively lead a team in resuscitating, stabilising and transferring a critically ill child, performing any high-level clinical or technical skills and procedures necessary to carry this out in paediatric patients, either in the OUH paediatric intensive care, emergency department, or independently in transport/retrieval environments.
• Able to recognise, assess and manage the full range of both medical and surgical paediatric conditions requiring intensive care support, including the management of safeguarding issues within this environment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Candidates must be a registered healthcare professional, with extensive experience in Paediatric Critical Care, Paediatric Critical Care Outreach and/or Paediatric Critical Care Retrieval.  They will have evidence of a completed master’s programme in Advanced Nursing Practice, Advanced Clinical Practice, or an Advanced Practice Credential via NHSE, and be a registered Independent and Supplementary Prescriber.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate completion of an accredited ‘academic’ pathway (leading to completed Level 7 MSc), and provide evidence of their workplace-based advanced practice capabilities via a portfolio, which must be available for review at interview, and contain evidence of advanced practice training/CPD, supervision and capabilities, relevant to Paediatric Critical Care.

Applications will also be considered from candidates with extensive Paediatric Critical Care experience, who are in their final year of their Advanced Practice MSc or training programme/portfolio, as completion of training may be supported.  An ePortfolio tool and Paediatric Critical Care competencies are available to support assurances in practice, and to evidence capabilities fully across the four pillars (clinical, leadership, education, research).  This would require a period of further training at a Band 7 level.