Trainee Advanced Practitioner Hospital at Night

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
The successful applicant will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated, and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. The post holder will provide clinical expertise for developing and enhancing the service. This will be done in collaboration with healthcare colleagues.

The Hospital At Night service consists of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Site coordinators, I bleep Co-coordinators and clinical support workers.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced qualified nurse/AHP to join the Out of Hours Service and work closely alongside all speciality teams including the departments of surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, medicine, renal, rehabilitation services and respiratory. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of a high performing multidisciplinary team including our existing Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

You must have proven experience in your clinical specialty and be able to demonstrate the motivation required to take on an ACP role.

**Main duties of the job**:
The post holder will ensure that evidence based practice is inherent in all aspects of care and treatment and ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the clinical area, Trust and externally as appropriate. They will:

- Undertake a significant 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.
- Triage referrals either independently or with medical colleagues and make onward referrals.
- Support redesign of the flow of patient referrals from Primary care to secondary care.

**Working for our organisation**:
Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. Salford is the place, which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults. Salford Care Organisation is responsible for delivering a range of acute, community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Current Professional Registration with NMC, HCPC**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Current Professional Registration with NMC, HCPC

**GCSE English and maths to grade C**:
**Essential criteria**:

- GCSE English and maths to grade C - will need to provide certificates for these

**Non medical prescribing**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Non medical prescribing

**Extensive post registartion experience in profession**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Extensive post registartion experience in profession

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience in surgery

**COVID-19 Vaccination Information**
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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.