Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Transformationunitgm; Whitby; On-site; CAD 53,000 - 61,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their multidisciplinary team. This role involves providing expert clinical care in a nurse-led environment, focusing on rehabilitation and symptom control for patients. The practitioner will work autonomously, ensuring high standards of care and contributing to service development. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in community nursing.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Current professional registration required.
• Advanced understanding of clinical practice standards.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously in a nurse-led service.
• Provide high standards of patient care and clinical governance.
• Demonstrate advanced clinical skills and support service development.

Skills

Effective interpersonal skills

Good time management

Critical clinical judgement

Education

Masters Degree

Teaching Certificate

Job description

Main area community nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 20 hours per week (working across 7 days and work 10 hour shifts.) Job ref 338-7112610-25

Employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Whitby Hospital Town Whitby Salary £53,755 - £60,504 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/05/2025 23:59

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job overview

A great opportunity has risen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work alongside our skilled Multi Disciplinary Team, over a 7 day rota period, to ensure that there is an effective nurse led service on our inpatient ward. This role is newly created to enable a nurse led service, you will join our current Advanced practitioners and between the three of you will cover over 7 days.

The memorial ward is a 16 bedded inpatient unit providing treatment for Adult patients who have been transferred from acute hospitals. The admission criteria is to provide patients with rehabilitation, symptom control and end of life care, this includes those who are community step up admissions.

The ward has been through a change from a medical model, to now having a focus of becoming an Advanced Care Practitioner / Nurse led inpatient unit.

The post holder will be required to work autonomously, without immediate support and supervision. You will deliver safe, effective clinical decision-making and expert quality care, including assessment, diagnosis, clinical management and evaluation to the community services patients specially but not exclusively those under the care of the community inpatient wards.

The role encompasses the four pillars of clinical practise, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.

Those in ACP training in year 2 onwards may be considered. Bank can also be considered for those that achieve the interview benchmark.

Main duties of the job

• An Advanced Clinical Practitioner is a highly qualified and experienced registered Health Care Professional; you will be a Nurse, Paramedic or Physiotherapist who is qualified with an appropriate master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice relevant to Community Services.
• It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making across an expanded scope of practise.
• The post holder will be accountable for his or her own area of practise and be compliant with their respective code of practise.
• The post holder must work at all times within your own competence and use your own judgement, knowledge and common sense in your day-to-day activitiesensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
• The post holder will provide high standards of patient care, embed clinical policies and guidelines and standardise clinical governance within the practice.
• The post holder will work with the locality matron to standardise policies and patient care.
• They will continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice on service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, across the Hull and East Riding residential and nursing homes.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Current professional registration – this could be HPC or NMC
• Educated to Masters Degree level
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area
• Teaching Certificate

Experience

• Evidence of sound post registration professional practice
• Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this in practice.
• Able to demonstrate leadership and management of a team.
• Evidence of working at a clinically advanced level using the 4 pillars.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
• Extensive clinical experience with physical health settings
• A range of advanced clinical practice skills within a specific area of practice.
• Experience in inpatient/ward or frailty/rehab settings in advanced autonomous role.

Skills and Competencies

• Effective interpersonal skills and experience of supervising, mentoring and teaching.
• Good time management
• Ability to use critical clinical judgement and decisions (within scope of practice) without supervisor.
• Proven experience of broad independent non medical prescribing practice
• Previous experience of working at an advanced level in a similar clinical setting.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)

This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name jayne Gibson Job title Service Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01947899200 Additional information

Jeanette Hyam - locality Matron 01947 899200