Advanced Clinical Practitioner

jobs24.co.uk; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their dynamic Urgent Treatment Centre team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your advanced clinical expertise to assess, manage, and discharge patients while ensuring the highest standards of care. With a focus on both clinical and leadership components, you will enjoy a supportive environment that fosters professional growth and mentorship. This position offers the chance to make a significant impact within a busy specialty, working with a diverse patient population and contributing to vital research and clinical governance initiatives. If you are passionate about delivering exceptional care and ready to take the next step in your career, this is the opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification in advanced clinical practice required.
• Independent prescriber with experience in managing patients independently.

Responsibilities

• Exercise advanced clinical expertise and decision making in clinical care.
• Lead improvements to standards of care through clinical audit and evidence-based practice.

Skills

Analytical skills

Judgement skills

IT literacy

Excellent communication

Motivation

Team building

Education

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Degree level qualification in base profession

Teaching / assessing qualification

Job description

You will work as part of the clinician Rota ensuring the safe assessment, management, referral and discharge of patients across The Urgent Treatment Centre. You should possess a Masters level qualification in advanced clinical practice, be an independent prescriber and have previous experience in managing patients independently as an ACP in an Urgent Treatment Centre. The post holder will deliver an 80% clinical component to their role and 20% related to the other pillars of advanced practice, education, research and leadership / management. You will be provided with mentorship from both a Consultant in Advanced Practice and, you will be supported to become credentialed via HEE ACP curriculum if you have not been credentialed via your University previously where you studied your MSc. You will be working in a busy and dynamic specialty which sees patients with a wide range of presentations, and serves a large and diverse population.

Main duties of the job

Working in Urgent Treatment Centre the post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care demonstrated through the Trust advanced competency framework, whilst maintaining a professional portfolio. The post holder will provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the client group. Will deal with complex facts and situations that may require advanced level of analysis, interpretation whilst comparing all the options. The Post holder will monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership. The Post holder will lead the implementation of relevant research into practice contributing to the further development of the evidence base through research and audit. The Post holder will contribute to clinical governance within the service by leading audit and research as part of the MDT within the area of expertise. Will require the ability to interpret and manage highly complex, sensitive or contentious information. Will be responsible for review, design and implementation of policies and guidance to ensure effective service provision / development.

Essential Qualifications

• Registered professional.
• Teaching / assessing qualification.
• Degree level qualification in base profession.
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice.

Desirable Qualifications

• Speciality course in Urgent care / Primary Care / Emergency Medicine or another relevant course.
• Non-medical prescriber.

Essential Experience

• Excellent clinical skills.
• Substantial post registration experience.
• Clinical Risk Management & Governance experience.
• Audit and research Leadership / leading a team.
• Experience of working autonomously and as part of a team.
• Awareness of national and local targets, NSF frameworks, Policy.

Desirable Experience

• Local and national issues affecting service delivery.
• Experience within the field of Urgent care / Primary Care / Emergency Medicine.
• Shows an interest in Urgent Care / receiving Units and Emergency Medicine as a speciality.

Essential Skills

• Analytical and judgement skills.
• IT literate.
• Motivation, team building. Excellent communication.

Desirable Skills

• Local and national issues affecting service delivery.
• Experience within the field of Urgent care / Primary Care / Emergency Medicine.
• Shows an interest in Urgent Care / receiving Units and Emergency Medicine as a speciality.

Essential Knowledge

• Developed knowledge of the speciality.
• National, local and organisational developments in Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care and the wider NHS agenda.

Other Essential Requirements

• Flexible to meet needs of post.
• Able to perform complex skills and procedures with dexterity.
• Acknowledge limitations in practice, commitment to own professional development.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £... and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.