Acute Care Team Practitioner

Response to deteriorating patients and Calls 4 Concern across all patient areas including the Emergency Department.

Assess, treat, manage and escalate within scope of practice

Clinical skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, Blood culture & arterial/venous blood sampling and catherterisation.

Manage care at enhanced level for patients requiring support such as nasal high flow and non-invasive ventilation outside of cohort wards.

Assess and manage the care of tracheotomy, laryngectomy patients working closely with parent teams and specialty services.

Work as part of the core cardiac arrest team.

Assess, treat and manage patients specifically presenting with high risk presentations such as Acute Kidney Injury, Rib fractures, Pancreatitis, etc.

Support teaching both formally and informally for the management of deteriorating and high risk patients.

Act as a role model demonstrating professionalism and trust values.

Recognise own limitations and take actions and accountability for personal professional development.

Work closely with and collaborate with the multi disciplinary teams supporting patient care and recovery.

Risk response and management of out of hours services.

Managerial and operational responsibilities associated with team productivity.

They will review referred and ongoing patients and assess these patients who are considered at risk by the referring multi-professional team. They will act as a role model providing support, education and training to the multi-professional team caring for the critically ill patient. The post holder will have a degree of autonomy where they will be responsible for a caseload of patients across a number of specialties, to include an element of lone working.

The post holder will be expected to work within a progressional role if all essential requirements are not met seeking and being supported to develop their experience and the implementation of clinical and non-clinical governance to modernise patient services. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for participating in clinical audit and nursing research, education, leadership and management.

They will be required to work flexibly as an ACT team member to ensure standards are maintained, evaluated and improved. In addition, to the obligatory advanced clinical skills, the practitioner may be required to develop a range of additional skills or techniques that fall outside the usual scope of nursing practice.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute, community and specialist services to the population of East Lancashire and Lancashire/South Cumbria.

Services are provided from two main sites, the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital and Burnley General Teaching Hospital. Acute services are housed on the Blackburn site and include the emergency department, the 32 bedded Critical Care Unit and the acute surgical and medical units. The ED is a trauma unit in the Lancashire Trauma network.

The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital provides acute services in 503 +70 daycasebeds

The hospital is situated just off junction 5 of the M65 and is our main hospital site receiving all emergency patients dealing with allemergencyinpatient care. All blue light ambulances attend this site.

Burnley General Teaching Hospital is an acute District General Hospitallocatedin Burnley, Lancashire, England. The hospitalprovidesa full range of services, including general and specialist medical and surgical services, diagnosticservicesand support services. It also houses anUrgent Care Centrefor minor injuries andillnesses.

Meeds essential and desirable criteria

Essential

Essential: - NMC registration or equivalent

Desirable: - Degree or level 6 / 7 academic study