Advanced Nurse Practioner - Arrhythmia

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Liverpool seeks an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to provide specialized care for patients with chronic and acute conditions. The role requires advanced clinical knowledge and the ability to work independently or in a team. Candidates must have significant experience in acute settings, alongside specified qualifications, to ensure patient management and service development.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an acute clinical setting.
• 5 years post-registration experience.
• Experience in various aspects of Cardiology services.

Responsibilities

• Undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients.
• Provide expert advice and nature healthcare needs.
• Conduct clinical audits and service developments.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Patient management

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

First level registered nurse/allied Health Professional

Working towards completing MSc in Advance Practice

NMC Practice Teacher or equivalent

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site AIntree Town Liverpool Salary £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/06/2025 23:59

Advanced Nurse Practioner - Arrhythmia

Band 8a

Job overview

The Advanced Practitioner will provide highly specialised care within the hospital setting, to those patients with chronic and acute conditions using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based. The Advanced Practitioner will function independently or within a clinical team and will demonstrate competence complementary to the doctor's role in the delivery of healthcare.

Main duties of the job

Undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients to incorporate physiological, psychological and pharmacological considerations, making multifaceted complex clinical decisions regarding patient management and clinical outcomes, including, where appropriate, listing patients for elective procedures and discharging patients from the service when treatment is complete/optimum outcome is achieve.

Regularly re-evaluate the service and develop according to need, within the limitation of resource.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Principal Accountabilities.

¨ The Advanced Practitioner will provide highly specialised care within the hospital setting, to those patients with chronic and acute conditions using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.

¨ The Advanced Practitioner will function independently or within a clinical team and will demonstrate competence complementary to the doctor’s role in the delivery of health care.

¨ Undertake independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients to incorporate physiological, psychological and pharmacological considerations, making multifaceted complex clinical decisions regarding patient management and clinical outcomes, including, where appropriate, listing patients for elective procedures and discharging patients from the service when treatment is complete/optimum outcome is achieved.

¨ Provide expert advice and to ensure the needs of the patient are met by leading, challenging and changing practice within the clinical setting.

¨ Provide expert advice and to ensure the needs of the patient are met by leading, challenging and changing practice within the clinical setting.

¨ To accept new and follow-up referrals in patients with chest pain and syncope

¨ To undertake ILR implant procedures and tilt table testing, coratid sinus massage and other procedures (such as ascites and chest drainage for ambulatory heart failure service).

¨ To undertake clinical audit, research and service development.

¨ Recognises and acts as an advocate for patients, carers, service and organisation.

¨ Provide counselling and advocacy for patients with acute and chronic conditions

¨ Lead change as required and ensure resolution of conflict, acting as a facilitator, resource and model to nursing and medical staff, and professions allied to medicine

¨ Undertake research and service development

¨ Regularly re-evaluate the service and develop according to need, within the limitation of resource.

¨ Monitor and evaluate the role of the Advanced Practitioner in liaison with appropriate managers and medical staff, and demonstrate and respond to changing needs

Person specification

Qualifications

• First level registered nurse/allied Health Professional currently working at an Advanced Practitioner level
• Non-Medical prescribing module
• Working towards completing MSc in Advance Practice (in the final year)
• Significant experience in an acute clinical setting
• ALS/Alert provider
• NMC Practice Teacher or equivalent
• MSc in Advanced Practice or equivalent

Knowledge

• 5 years post-registration experience.
• Significant years’ experience at Band 6 or above
• Detailed knowledge of current best practice in relevant clinical area
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development
• Post-registration experience in Cardiology.
• Experience in various aspects of Cardiology services
• portfolio of evidence showing achievements in Cardiology

Skills

• Working knowledge of the current professional NHS issues contributing to Service Development
• Competent in organising own work load.
• Ability to work autonomously, plan, organise, prioritise and delegate appropriate interventions to support staff
• Commitment to training and development.
• Detailed knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and its application
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Effective written and oral communication/listening skills.
• Ability to understand and analyse professional and ethical issues and apply them to service development.
• Flexbility to move between all work environments and rotate around clinical areas.
• Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional/aggressive patients/carers.
• Undertaken a management programme
• ECDL Qualification or equivalent
• Have an understanding of team dynamics and an ability to influence the building of effective relationships between staff

Other

• Willingness to work flexibly and at other sites when required. Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary

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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.