Band 6 Transfer Practitioner

Job summary

We are currently seeking enthusiastic Transfer Practitioners for the ACCOTS service hosted by

University Hospitals Birmingham. The ACCOTS is based at Union Park, West Bromwich, all shifts start and end from this base.

The Adult Critical Care Coordination Transfer Service (ACCOTS) is based in the Midlands region and provides coordination, triage, decision-support and transfer of critically ill patients between hospitals for escalation to specialist care, repatriation and capacity reasons. It is primarily focused on intra region transfers but must be capable of delivering inter regional transfers and have the ability to surge capacity when the Adult Critical Care (ACC) service is under pressure.

All posts are full time, permanent, requiring 37.5 hours per week, Monday -- Sunday, The service currently runs daytime shifts, 08:00 -- 20:00 and 10:00 -- 22:00 and Night shift 20:00 - 0800.

We are keen to hear from applicants with Critical Care and Patient Transfer experience who are already currently working within the acute setting in the NHS.

This post offers an excellent opportunity for development, gaining exposure to a wide range of educational, strategic and operational initiatives and challenges within the service.

If you have any questions about these job opportunities, please contact: Kelly Naylor -- Lead practitioner -- Kelly.Naylor2@nhs.net

Andrew Boazman - Clinical Educator - Andrew.Boazman@nhs.net

Main duties, tasks & skills required

As Band 6 Transfer Practitioners, following completion of the appropriate additional training, you will assume responsibility for the delivery of Adult Critical Care Transfers to ensure the specialised care required to transfer critically ill adults is carried out to a high standard. There is an expectation that you continue to develop your clinical and management skills by demonstrating an ability to work remotely in the referring centres, in partnership with the local teams.

By working collaboratively with the multi-professional team, the post holder will act as a professional role model, setting standards of practice and promoting clinical effectiveness and actively participating in practice developments identified through the service governance processes. You will be expected to support and mentor new members of the multi-professional team, demonstrating an active role in the on going education programmes.

In partnership with the Midlands Critical Care Network, the post holder will support the relationship between the Service and referring centres through taking on the role of link practitioner for several designated hospitals, assuming responsibility, with the Lead Practitioner for the delivery of outreach education and annual updates.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

*Relevant professional registration with the NMC

*Educated to Degree level or working towards completion.

*Speciality qualification in Adult Critical Care (or equivalent)

*Completion of Critical Care Steps Competencies 1,2 & 3 or equivalent.

*Assessing and mentoring qualification or willingness to undertake.

*Basic and Advanced life support (BLS/ALS) or willingness to undertake.

Desirable

*Teaching qualification

* Critical care transfer training course

Experience

Essential

Recent experience working within an Adult Critical Care Unit

* Recent relevant experience with intra-hospital transfer

* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice / speciality

* Understanding of professional and current issues in critical care transfers

Desirable

*Evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff groups

* Evidence of presentations at local and regional level

Additional Criteria

Essential

*Excellent clinical critical care skills

* Ability to work in a highly demanding environment.

*Effective managerial, leadership and organisational skills

* Excellent communication and leadership skills

* Able to work across professional team and organisational boundaries.

* Previous experience of change management and problem solving

*An understanding of audit and research methodologies

* Ability to demonstrate effective use of resources.

*Ability to work with advanced technologies.

* Flexibility in working practices (unsocial hours / internal rotation)

*Self-motivated and able to motivate others.

* Delivery of evidence-based practice

*Ability to work under pressure across competing demands.

*Competent in the use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

* Good knowledge of clinical information systems

* Competent to utilise medical databases and search engines to access current evidence and literature.

* Competent in the use of databases and spreadsheets

*Well organised

*Effective communicator

*Sound clinical reasoning and decision making

*Ability to perform in complex and challenging situations.

*Ability to inspire and lead a team.

*Flexible

*Ability to work flexible shift pattern, where required to include rotation to day /night duty and unsocial hours according to service need

*Ability to work across all UHB sites and externally as required by the role.

Desirable

* Further evidence of continued leadership / management development

* Previous experience of research, audit and benchmarking

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Kelly Naylor 

kelly.naylor@uhb.nhs.uk 

07980270350