Job summary
- Main area
- Medical
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Job share - 40 hours available to be split between two roles.
- Job ref
- 411-MED-25-7152060
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Nurse Specialist in Endocrinology
NHS AfC: Band 6
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
The post holder will be, working under the supervision of the Band 8a Advanced Nurse Practitioners , to provide support to the clinical team in managing the caseload across the care pathway. The post will enable the individual to develop enhanced knowledge skills and competence in managing the care of children and families within the caseload as well as achieving further development across the range of more generic nurse specialist competencies.
Working under the supervision of the Band 8a Advanced Nurse Practitioners the post holder will:
Ensure that children with Endocrine disorders across the Trust, mainly working on the Medical Day Case Unit and General Paediatric wards, along with the outpatient department, receive high quality evidence based care through the provision of education and support to patients, their families and staff.
To provide advice and written information as required in response to telephone contact from parents or health professionals and others caring for these children, young people and families in local hospitals and in the community
As an experienced nurse, the Associate Nurse Specialist is a key member of the specialty and medical division nursing team with a responsibility to contribute to wider service delivery.
Main duties of the job
· To assist in delivering specialist nursing advice and support to children and families with growth and endocrine disorders, including children requiring treatment with growth hormone therapy. Facilitate independent living and maximising the child’s and carer’s participation in the management of their condition
· To act as a specialist resource for Endocrinology and support the specialist nursing team to deliver effective treatment and institute therapy using evidence based practice wherever possible, health promotion and health education
· To assist the specialist nursing team in promoting good practice in paediatric endocrinology and actively participate in the management and co-ordination of patients requiring endocrine investigations and dynamic endocrine function tests
· To help support research and audit to support the development of the endocrine specialty unit
· To contribute toward the continuing development of the service, through guidance and support of the specialist endocrinology team
Working for our organisation
As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.
Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.
We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide specialist nursing support and advice to children and families with growth and endocrine disorders
• To be a competent, knowledgeable and visible practitioner within the specialty ensuring the provision of high quality evidence based nursing care for children, young people and their families
• To further develop clinical expertise within endocrinology
• Teaching and support of the child, parent, carer in the management of their endocrine condition, including the teaching, training and education of hormone replacement therapy
• Provide safe and appropriate care and support for all children attending the Medical Day Care Unit who require endocrine investigations using established protocols
• To be a resource to those caring for children, young people and their families with endocrine concerns Trust wide by providing an advisory service to different wards and specialities and to meet with individual young people and their families where appropriate
• Effectively communicate with colleagues within the Trust and community, ensuring that the ethos of the specialty is maintained with regards to a team approach to care, acting as patient advocate when required
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care including specialist skills required for this role including venepuncture and IV cannulation
• Work with the CNS’s to develop competence in new techniques/treatments to develop practice in line with the Trust framework for advancing practice
• Actively participate in the development of care pathways, patient information and treatment protocols which reflect and endorse latest research findings
• To be competent in the administration of medicines including IV medicines
• In conjunction with the CNS’s and Management Team to set, develop and monitor clinical and non clinical performance standards, taking action as required
• Actively engage with patients through a variety of vehicles to obtain feedback from patient and family experience
• Ensuring that the child, young person and family are given the information necessary for making informed consent about treatment
• Have the ability to problem solve in the clinical and home environment, including the management of endocrine patients requiring telephone advice (the necessary support will be provided by the wider endocrine team including doctors and other allied health care professionals)
• Provide specialist nursing support to the endocrine team in the outpatient department where required
• Communicate effectively, promoting open and trusting relationships
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Identify learning needs in relation to specialist area of practice
• Develop and evaluate teaching/learning resources
• Assist CNS in the development and delivery of MDT training and education programmes for all professionals, to promote a wider understanding of care for children and their families with growth and endocrine disorders
• Help to develop information packages for training purposes
• Update own personal knowledge and skills by accessing appropriate and relevant seminars, study sessions, conferences and specialist network groups
• Provide mentoring and assessment to nursing and medical students allocated to the endocrine specialty
MANAGEMENT
• Establish and maintain internal and external links in order to promote and develop the service
• Contribute to the development of specialist service in collaboration with specialty team
• Use expert knowledge to order specialist items in order to ensure maximum benefit to the child, young person and family
• Collaborate with other professionals in order to maintain and develop the service
• Support the development of nursing roles within the specialist area of practice
• Contribute to delivering cost improvements/improved efficiency within the service
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Participate in and practice an appropriate model of clinical supervision and reflective practice to meet personal needs
• Continue to network and forge professional links nationally
• Work within KSF to attain the required criteria to meet national and local standards in respect of the Associate Nurse Specialist role
• Support the nurse specialist team in providing innovative solutions to the demand for nursing resource within the endocrine specialty ensuring measurable outcomes including quality and patient satisfaction are maintained
RESEARCH
• Participate at national/local conferences by sharing research, presentations and lecturing
• Support and participate in nursing research within specialist area of practice
• Assist in the co-ordination of trials within specialist area of practice
• Publish results to increase the body of knowledge
• Keep up to date with emerging thinking/findings from other centres
• Participate in the collection of data to support audit of practice – locally, nationally and internationally
• Create and distribute reports as agreed with Service and medical directorate Management Team
• Utilise and evaluate tools to audit practice within specialist area of practice
• Participate in local and Trust wide improvements projects in line with the Trust Transformation programme
• Support and contribute to the collection of data for related local, Trust wide and national quality indicators
• Question, analyse and constructively challenge practice in the spirit of continuous quality improvement
• Assist junior staff and learners to gain insight and skills in research audit and in quality improvement
Person specification
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- • RSCN-RN Child
- • Evidence of ongoing dynamic continuing professional development within the specialty linked to demonstrable clinical competencies
- • Possession of a relevant degree or in the process of obtaining
- • Excellent paediatric clinical skills
- • Relevant specialist skills and abilities
- • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- • Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries
- • Effective teaching, training and preceptor ship skills
- • Ability to delegate and prioritise
- • Administration of IV drugs
- • Teaching, clinical supervision
- • Experience of co-ordinating and managing patient care
- • Excellent speciality knowledge
- • Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing
- • Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- • Child protection procedures
- • Handling clinical incidents and complaints
- • Awareness of equality and diversity
- • A flexible approach to work
- • Effective time management
- • Evidence of fulfilling requirements of professional registration
- • Committed to providing excellent Family Centred Care
- • Motivated, enthusiastic and committed to the specialty
- • Accountability – takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good team working • Openness – shares information and good
- • Openness – shares information and good practice appropriately
- • Mutual respect – treats others with courtesy and respect at all times
Desirable criteria
- • Mentorship qualification
- • Effective managerial, leadership and organisational skills
- • Phlebotomy and cannulation skills
- • IT skills
- • Experience at Band 6, or equivalent, including within relevant clinical environment
- • Previous experience of research, audit and quality improvement
- • Previous experience of change management and problem solving
- • Experience of handling clinical incidents and complaints
- • Understanding of audit and research methodologies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Yung
- Job title
- Advanaced Nurse Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01512525534
- Additional information
Peter Laing
Advanced Nurse Practitioner Endocrinology
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