Qualified Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Clinical: • To deliver and participate in the clinical care of all Paediatric patients attending the Emergency Department (Minors, Resus and Paediatrics). • Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive nursing assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge. • Direct responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multidisciplinary team. • To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations. • Order/ interpret investigations, laboratory tests, x-rays and act on results as appropriate, • Initiate drug therapy/medication within the parameters of agreed clinical guidelines and in accordance with present legislation supply and prescribing of medicines. • To play an active role in the development/ improvement and audit of processes that facilitates and improve patient flow. • Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within emergency and unscheduled care. • To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients. Please note - a qualified APCP job description is attached to this advert. For further information please see attached job description Job description Job responsibilities Clinical: • To deliver and participate in the clinical care of all Paediatric patients attending the Emergency Department (Minors, Resus and Paediatrics). • Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive nursing assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge. • Direct responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multidisciplinary team. • To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations. • Order/ interpret investigations, laboratory tests, x-rays and act on results as appropriate, • Initiate drug therapy/medication within the parameters of agreed clinical guidelines and in accordance with present legislation supply and prescribing of medicines. • To play an active role in the development/ improvement and audit of processes that facilitates and improve patient flow. • Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within emergency and unscheduled care. • To improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients. Please note - a qualified APCP job description is attached to this advert. For further information please see attached job description