Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Medway Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading social enterprise recognized for high-quality, patient-centered care. We seek dynamic advanced autonomous practitioners to deliver exceptional primary and urgent care, engaging in clinical practice, supervision, and service development within a supportive team. Enjoy competitive benefits and opportunities for flexible working and professional growth.

Benefits

Two pension scheme options

Opportunities for flexible working

In-service training and supervision

Employee shareholding opportunity

Qualifications

• Registered practitioner essential with significant experience as a case worker for patients.
• Teaching qualification is desirable.
• Ability to manage complex patient caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical practice with autonomy and complex decision-making.
• Support clinical excellence and supervision for healthcare professionals.
• Participate in developing audit and research to improve services.

Skills

Critical thinking

Clinical assessment

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered practitioner with the NMC or HCPC

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or HEE ACP Accreditation

Job description

Do you want to be part of an award winning and dynamic social enterprise that:

• is renowned for providing high quality care and is ranked 'Good' by the CQC;
• is a for-better-profit organisation, reinvesting any surplus back into our health and care services and our local community;
• is friendly, ambitious, welcomes innovation and rewards excellence;
• offers superior benefits; everything you get in the NHS and more;
• and whose achievements reflect the passion, dedication and commitment demonstrated by our staff across all services?

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, community interest company that benefits the communities we serve. So if you want be a part of this, we would love to hear from you.

Job overview

We are looking for advanced autonomous practitioners to join our team. Are you excited by primary and urgent care? Do you enjoy working in a dynamic busy environment?

MedOCC is a primary medical care service providing 2 functions. One function is the provision of primary care out of hours services for Medway and Swale and the second function is to provide the primary care element of the Urgent Treatment Centre at Medway Foundation Trust.

The out of hours primary care provision also delivers the cellulitis and DVT pathways for both Medway and Swale. The service is provided out of hours between the hours of 18:30 pm to 08:00 am. On weekdays and from 18:30 pm Friday through to 08:00 Monday morning including Bank Holidays.

The Urgent Treatment Centre primary care element operates in hours including weekends treating patients with a wide range of medical presentations referred via 111 and streamed by the UTC front door.

The clinical team operate a rostered shift system. MedOCC has multiple pathways in and out of our service and have direct referral routes to all MCH services and many more with our partner organisations such as SECAmb, MFT, KMPT and Primary Care.

Main duties of the job

Advanced clinical practice is delivered by experienced, registered health and care practitioners. It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making.

The ACP will provide advanced practice according and demonstrate the 4 pillars:

1. Clinical practice: The ACP demonstrates in depth knowledge and capabilities in all aspects of health and social care encompassing advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking and clinical management skills that are evidence based and deliver high quality patient centred care. The ACP will demonstrate complex decision-making skills and competences for expanded scope of advanced clinical practice for service users and clinical teams according to needs.

2. Education and personal development: The post holder will have an organisational responsibility to promote clinical excellence in the care of service users presenting to their specialty by providing clinical advice, supervision and support as well as implementing programmes of induction and education for all health care professionals.

3. Research and development activity is a major responsibility. The individual will support in the evaluation of services within the organisation. The role will include developing audit and research projects and participating in up-dating and implementing departmental policies, protocols and guidelines, in line with national guidance and contemporary evidence.

Working for our organisation

So what else?

• This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you'll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
• We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
• We'll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
• You'll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The small print

• Informal visits can be arranged on request.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Criteria

Essential

Desirable

Qualifications

Registered practitioner with the NMC or HCPC

Significant experience as a case worker for patients

First level AHP or Nursing degree

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or HEE ACP Accreditation

Post registration qualification or training or experience relevant to specialty

Teaching qualification

Experience

Experience of practice within the four pillars

Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex patients/ caseloads

Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews

Substantial experience of clinical work in relevant setting

Evidence of continued professional development

Worked as or are working as a band 7 or above

Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and

negotiation skills

Experience of service improvement initiatives Evidence of involvement in policy and practice change Clinical work in an autonomous role.

Experience of leading service development

Experience in using research evaluation / audit tools and demonstrating need. Experience of clinically supervising others

Special knowledge / expertise

Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge in own speciality field supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD

Ability to work within a multi-professional team, often presenting and receiving complex information Knowledge of National Policy and guidance.

Demonstrated ability to monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.

Applied leadership knowledge.

Post graduate qualification in relevant specialty

Disposition, adjustment, attitude and commitment

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Well organised

Good reasoning skills

Motivated and a motivator with evidence of efficient time and deadline management

Team builder and team member

Reflective practitioner and accepts constructive feedback

Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this.

Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse health conditions and ensure effective interventions are

actioned in a timely manner.

Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines.

Evidence of teaching skills Evidence of managing complaints effectively.

MCH values

Being caring and compassionate The health and wellbeing of our patients and staff are my priority.

I show kindness and humanity.

I am inclusive and non-discriminatory.

Working in partnership

I ask for, respond to and offer feedback which improves the quality of our services.

I work effectively as part of my immediate team, the wider organisation and with external partners to achieve shared goals.

I take responsibility and ownership for my area of work and I meet and manage expectations.

Delivering quality and value

I raise my concerns and I am open and honest when things do not go well, learning from successes and mistakes. I make the most of resources and reduce waste and inefficiencies. I seek out, share and actively participate in new ideas and ways of working.

These are the core values and

behaviours expected of all roles within MCH and individual performance in relation to the values is assessed in your PDR. A full description is available from your manager and the intranet.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or HEE ACP Accreditation
• Registered practitioner with the NMC or HCPC

Desirable criteria

• Post registration qualification or training or experience relevant to specialty

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of practice within the four pillars
• Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex patients/ caseloads
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
• Worked as or are working as a band 7 or above

Desirable criteria

• Experience of service improvement initiatives
• Experience of clinically supervising others

Specialist Knowledge and Expertise

Essential criteria

• Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge in own speciality field supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
• Ability to work within a multi-professional team, often presenting and receiving complex information Knowledge of National Policy and guidance.

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate qualification in relevant specialty

Disposition

Essential criteria

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Motivated and a motivator with evidence of efficient time and deadline management

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of teaching skills

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 1 week of the closing date; no discourtesy is intended in not contacting you if your application is rejected.

When completing your application, please include the email addresses and contact telephone numbers for your referees; your referees should be your line managers / course tutors for the last 3 years.

MCH is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a compassionate and inclusive workplace and values diversity of all people. We prohibit unlawful discrimination and harassment of any kind and wish to provide our employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. At the heart of our values, we seek to treat people fairly and with dignity and respect and provide a workplace where people feel they belong.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join MCH. We are positive about disability and we guarantee interviews to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria as specified in the job description. We are committed to offering support and making reasonable adjustments to allow full participation in the interview and selection process and through their employee journey.

We are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of children and vulnerable adults.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Advanced Clinical Practitioner (PDF, 384.6KB)
• Working with us v2.6 2023 - 2024 (PDF, 1.5MB)
• Social Value Report 2022-2023 (PDF, 2.0MB)
• Our flexible working commitment (PDF, 672.2KB)