Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in a dynamic community health team. This role is pivotal in providing urgent care to patients at home, aiming to reduce hospital admissions and enhance independent living. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, utilizing advanced clinical skills and non-medical prescribing to support complex cases. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to improving lives through high-quality care. Your expertise will shape the future of community health services while fostering a positive team culture. This is your chance to make a significant impact in the healthcare sector.

Qualifications

• Hold current professional registration with NMC/HCPC.
• Minimum 6 years’ experience as HCP with advanced practice.

Responsibilities

• Support patients experiencing crisis ill health within the UCR team.
• Lead clinical assessments and implement evidence-based changes.

Skills

Advanced autonomous clinical assessment

Critical decision-making skills

Advanced problem-solving skills

Advanced level written communication skills

Advanced level verbal communication skills

Clinical Audit

Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working

Education

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

Accredited autonomous practitioner MSc

Non-medical Prescribing V300

Job description

Main area Adult Community Physical Health Services Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mixed shift pattern over 7 days) Job ref 277-6706341-CPH-C

Site 181 Goldie Leigh Town London Salary £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 23/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

Oxleas Bexley Rapid Response/Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) have an exciting 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post available. The role works across UCR and Virtual Wards.

The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, whilst providing clinical leadership and line management to junior colleagues within the integrated multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients, and the ability to clinically lead a community team.

We welcome dynamic applicants from adult Nursing and AHP backgrounds. This is an opportunity to join and further shape Bexley’s UCR service.

UCR teams provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Through these teams, older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, can get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours. This includes access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy, medication prescribing and reviews.

Main duties of the job

The Directorate is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an innovative Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as a member of the UCR team to support patients experiencing crisis ill health. The team offers wider admission avoidance strategies.

The successful applicant will be working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner supporting the UCR and Virtual Ward pathways to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and contribute to effective admission avoidance. The role incorporates high-level advanced clinical assessment skills and use of the non-medical prescribing qualification to medically support complex patients within the community, presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.

You will be required to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process; identify gaps within the service and lead with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies. You will be actively involved in research and responsible for leading implementation of evidence-based clinical changes as well as facilitating a positive team culture through effective clinical leadership, providing a clinical resource to colleagues as required and delivering training and education to the team and wider services to improve standards of service delivery.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The UCR team in Bexley provides a community rapid response to patients registered to Bexley GP and who live in the London Borough of Bexley seven days a week, Monday to Sunday from 8am to 8pm. This service treats patients at home to avoid a hospital admission or readmission.

All referrals are triaged by a senior member of the team and if clinically necessary seen within two hours (patients will also be seen later that day or the next day if required) by a multidisciplinary team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Primary Care Nurses, Staff Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Health Care and Rehabilitation Assistants, Social Workers, social care assistants and highly experienced administrators.

The team is supported by Consultants and Doctors, and works closely with hospital frailty teams, and colleagues in emergency care.

The team of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and support staff complete comprehensive holistic assessments and provide short-term interventions for up to five days.

The service is designed for people over 18 who are housebound and who live in the borough registered with a Bexley GP.

Please refer to the Job Description attached for further information.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Hold current professional registration with respective professional body NMC (Adult Registration) / HCPC
• Hold an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Hold an Accredited autonomous practitioner MSc & Post Graduate Diploma Advanced Clinical Practice
• Non-medical Prescribing V300
• Portfolio of evidence for advance clinical practice consolidation
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of education/training in specialist area (i.e. therapies, interventions, service-specialism)

Experience and Knowledge

• Minimum 6 years’ experience as HCP
• Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice minimum of 1 years’ experience as ACP or equivalent.
• Experience of service/practice development
• Experience in a range of care settings Primary Secondary Care Emergency Departments
• Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions
• Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion and equality
• Experience of leading research/quality improvement initiatives, developing and evaluating new ways of working
• Experience of leading a team
• Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
• Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population

Skills and Abilities

• Advanced autonomous clinical assessment
• Critical decision-making skills/Advanced problem-solving skills
• Competence in requesting and interpretation of required investigations
• Advanced level written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of appraisals
• Full driving license with access to car
• Clinical Audit and interest in research
• Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
• Evidence of radiology requesting and Interpretation

Other Requirements

• Willingness/ability to work flexibly (time and location)
• Willingness to undertake further training and education relevant to practice and service need
• Supportive, friendly, adaptable and patient focused
• Effective interpersonal skills with colleagues, patients and public
• Mental Effort Expected to concentrate for long periods of time when assessing patients Need to have constant vigilance and awareness of the client and environment.
• Ability to work flexibly to deal with interruption regarding service issues.
• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
• Demonstrate commitment to support national and Trust strategies and objectives for clinical care and advanced clinical practice

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

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 Cherie Trew Job title Matron Team Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07789877067 Additional information

Please contact Cherie Trew if you require any additional information or would like to arrange an informal visit.