Advanced Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Description

Liverpool Community Respiratory Team are commencing a Respiratory Virtual Ward and are looking for highly skilled, highly motivated individuals to support patients with multiple respiratory health needs, in the city of Liverpool.

To provide social, emotional and psychological support for patients from referral and throughout their treatment.

To deliver expert specialist evidence based care including:
development, assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidence based care for a defined caseload.
To make appropriate referral to consultants/other specialist/members of the multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.
To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally and develop strategies to address identified issues.

Using Tele medicine, the candidate will have clinical oversight and (in conjunction with Consultants) responsibility for patients who are being managed in their own homes.

This will involve working with external agencies and technologies to provide an enhanced Hospital at Home and Early Supported Discharge service for patients with COPD, Pneumonia, Bronchiectasis, Covid, weening o2 needs and acute respiratory tract infections.

Other roles in the job plan that are being workshopped are supporting existing CRT services such as working in clinics, responding to acute clinical call outs from Primary care, providing support and education to the existing team, audits and working alongside other respiratory ACPs in secondary care to further skills and knowledge

This is a new project, so it will involve service development, innovation and support of all areas of the service.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

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To maintain personal accountability for professional and ethical actions and ensure compliance with the standards of professional conduct issued by the relevant regulatory body2.

Ensure clinician-led clinics provide for both diagnoses and reporting of subsequent results for identified patients.

To provide teaching as an in-house measure to all medical and clinical staff, not only within the Care Group but also from other services.

To provide a clinician-led clinic service to patients.

To plan and administer treatment to patients as appropriate and ensure handover of this treatment to community services as necessary.

The post holder will be expected to work clinical shifts in a ward environment if necessaryManagement and Quality.
Assisting in the audit and data collection required for developing evidence based services.
To be involved in complaints handling according to the Trusts Complaints Procedure.

To ensure effective and efficient use of financial resources, contributing to increasing the efficiency and controlling cost within the departmental budget.

To promote effective communication within the hospital and to the patient and/or their relatives.
Act as a point of liaison between all hospital departments involved in the patients journey.
The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.

To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that the patients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or teamEducation and training development1.

To act as an educator and assessor to promote and maintain skills and knowledge to relevant medical and clinical staff, including specialist registrars and senior house officers.

To be actively involved in health promotion in line with Government targets.

Equality and DiversityIt is the responsibility of every member of staff to understand our equality and diversity commitments and statutory obligations under current equality legislation (the Equality Act 2010) and to:Act in ways that support equality and diversity and recognises the importance of peoples rights in accordance with legislation, policies, procedures and good practice.

Valuing people as individuals and treating everyone with dignity and respect, consideration and without prejudice, respecting diversity and recognising peoples expressed beliefs, preferences and choices in working with others and delivering appropriate services.

Recognise and report behaviour that undermines equality under Trust policy. With the support of managers develop an equality and diversity objective through the personal development review process.

We value everyone for their unique contribution and we embrace diversity We are confident in speaking up and we support all our colleagues to do the same We are open and honest.

We Are InnovativeWe work as a team to continuously improve the way we deliver and transform health care.

We continuously improve the services we deliver and pioneer new ways of doing things We learn from mistakes, striving to ensure we get things right first time We create and share knowledge with each other, patients and our professional communities.

Understanding and application of healthcare governance

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool Community Respiratory Team, Aintree House, Aintree University Hospital