Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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To deliver an advanced level of care to children with cancer with or without additional acute conditions through the integration of therapeutic and nursing care.

The care is delivered in an unsupervised and autonomous context founded upon expert knowledge bases within the speciality. Expert advice will be provided to community nurses for children locally or within our shared care centres.

To advance an integrated role that co-ordinates an improved continuity and quality of care for patients both in respect to treatment and the patient journey across the primary/ secondary/tertiary care interfaces and other relevant agencies.


To participate in risk management assessments and the development of evidenced based strategies to improve the quality of care both for the individual patient and the target population.

To promote the advancement of nursing practice in paediatrics.

To promote the role of the advanced clinical nurse in order to underpin the overall care of children and young people with cancer and their families in a paediatric and community context.

To participate in and advance the audit and research process within the service including the identification of research questions, data collection and analysis as well as the implementation and dissemination of findings.

Advance an educational role with patients, parents, nursing and medical staff both within and outside the Trust. To communicate with patients, carers and other health professionals and so facilitate the partnership approach between these stakeholders. Provides and receives complex data and information with sensitive discussion of emotive issues, in a competent and transparent manner.

To effectively manage highly emotive situations of shock, anger and grief with advanced communication, negotiation and assessment skills, in an autonomous yet collaborative manner.

To participate in strategic planning of future quality service development, including policy planning, both locally and nationally. Please see attached job description and person specification for further details of the skills required for the role.

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