Advanced Care Practitioner - Meoc

Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Mexborough; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Health and wellbeing support

Discounts and salary sacrifice

Job summary

Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking two Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join the elective orthopaedic service at Mexborough Elective Orthopaedic Centre. You will deliver autonomous clinical care, lead rapid response, and support high standards of patient outcomes in a modern orthopaedic hub.

The role requires leadership, extensive advanced assessment skills, and ongoing CPD within a multidisciplinary team, under GIRFT recommendations.

Qualifications

• Registered professional with current registration and working towards masters.
• Evidence of autonomous practice with leadership and supervision.
• Experience in acute clinical settings and advanced assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous high-quality clinical care for orthopaedic elective patients.
• Lead rapid response for Mexborough Montagu Hospital and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Pursue CPD and participate in teaching and supervision of junior staff.

Skills

Autonomous practitioner

Clinical leadership

Clinical assessment

Audit and research

Education

NMC/HCPC registration

Masters in Advanced Practice

Advanced Physical Assessment

Non-Medical Prescriber

Tools

Point-of-care ultrasound

ECG

Venepuncture

Cannulation

X-ray interpretation

Job description

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for two Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) committed to delivering high quality care to join our elective orthopaedic service at Mexborough Elective Orthopaedic Centre. Please contact us to come and have a look round and meet the team already providing a quality service to the people of South Yorkshire.

There is joint partnership working between Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH), Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BH) and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT) in a dedicated elective orthopaedic hub, with health professionals undertaking hip and knee replacement inpatient procedures alongside foot and ankle, hand and wrist, and shoulder day case surgery.

The Montagu Elective Orthopaedic Centre (MEOC) facility has two state-of-the-art theatre units, two anaesthetic rooms and a recovery suite, in addition to 12 inpatient beds.

Main duties of the job

To be part of our team the successful candidate will be an autonomous practitioner ensuring that your practice is underpinned by the four pillars of advanced clinical practice, have recent experience of caring for patients in an acute setting, have excellent leadership and clinical skills, as well as evidence of continuing professional development, have drive, ambition, passion, a flexible approach and dedicated to working in this modern, high quality environment supporting best practice for orthopaedic patients following GIRFT recommendations.

As an experienced ACP, you will provide high quality clinical care for patients presenting with a variety of orthopaedic elective surgeries, providing a comprehensive advanced clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting investigations, decision making, provision of treatment, prescribing, evaluation of care and referral to other healthcare professionals if required. The ACP will be the lead for the rapid response team for Mexborough Montagu Hospital. Whilst working autonomously the ACP will always work within a multi professional team led by a Consultant.

On appointment the successful candidates will be allocated a clinical and educational supervisor, access to eportfolio and will be supported to complete any educational or clinical training for their on‑going CPD.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues. At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully. Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.

Certificate of sponsorship
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From 9th April2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience at senior level (AFC Band 7 or equivalent), working as an autonomous practitioner on own initiative
• Evidence of high quality, comprehensive, clinical assessment, treatment and decision making skills
• Current evidence recent contribution to audit, research or service development programs
• Effective leadership, influencing and supervisory skills including supervision of junior staff / students and ability to coach / motivate others

Desirable

• Evidence of awareness of local and national issues affecting advanced practice
• Evidence of recent Quality Improvement and Innovation project

Qualifications & Training

Essential

• Degree level Registered Nurse with valid Nursing & Midwifery Council registration or relevant AHP
• Working towards completion of Masters degree in Advanced Practice
• Completed Advanced Physical Assessment and consultation skills, Managing medical conditions/managing the acutely unwell and X-Ray interpretation
• Registered Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
• Relevant teaching / mentor qualification
• ALS provider

Desirable

• MSc in advanced professional Practice
• PG Cert/Diploma in advanced professional practice
• Management or leadership qualification

Personal Attributes & Skills

Essential

• In depth knowledge of the role of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and interpersonal skills to communicate with patients, the public and all grades of multi-disciplinary staff and outside agencies in a professional manner.
• Good time management and prioritisation skills to enable concentration and working under high pressure in an unpredictable environment. Manages own workload and supports nursing and junior medical staff.
• Analytical and judgement skills in carrying out patient assessments and ability to make a diagnosis based on imaging and pathology results as well as being able to critique own practice.
• Excellent emergency patient assessment and treatment knowledge and skills in relation to invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including but not limited to point of care ultrasound, ECG, catheterisation, venepuncture, cannulation, ABG and IV drug administration, including teaching and ongoing workplace based assessment of others in these skills.
• Ability to critically appraise research to identify and implement best practice. Able to design / support audit programmes relevant to advanced practice in emergency care

Desirable

• Ability to represent advanced nursing practice at Trust, regional or national forums
• Leadership training

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).