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NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We are recruiting a trainee Advanced Nurse Practitioner for an exciting role split between our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, and ScotSTAR (our paediatric retrieval service). This role will be primarily based within PICU. There is another role advertised which will be primarily based within ScotSTAR.
The successful candidate will work as an expert clinical practitioner responsible for providing expert clinical care and management of both the stable and acutely unwell patients and their family, making complex, autonomous decisions using advanced skills and knowledge. They will have overall responsibility for the assessment of care needs and the delivery of advanced nursing care, to a level equivalent to that of medical staff.
The Trainee ANP will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care. The ANP must demonstrate competence within all four pillars of advanced practice and make professional, autonomous decisions for which they are accountable.
The post holder will provide leadership, clinical support and advice to nursing and junior medical staff, making appropriate referrals to, and co-ordinating the contribution of other members of the multi-professional team as well as providing specialist education, training to nurses, AHP’s ,students and junior medical staff. The successful Trainee ANP will commit to demonstrating critical thinking whilst providing safe, competent clinical decision-making skills.
PICU which is a 22-bedded unit caring for a variety of patients including emergency and elective medical and surgical. This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced PICU Senior Charge Nurse to take the next step and lead our unit. We hold the National Services contract to provide care for Interventional Cardiology, cardiac surgery, trauma, burns, haem-oncology including BMT, ENT (complex airway), neurology, neurosurgery, and plastic surgery. We are also a national ECLS centre.
The Paediatric Retrieval Service as part of ScotSTAR has a responsibility to provide retrieval of critically ill babies/children/adolescents from any healthcare facility in Scotland to either the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow or the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh. The team retrieve babies and children from newborn to age 16 years. The service carries out approximately 300-350 retrievals per annum.
Informal Contact: Lewis Doult lewis.doult@ggc.scot.nhs.uk or Christopher Lamb christopher.lamb@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs
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