Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; St Helens; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join their Homeless Health Team. This pivotal role involves delivering high-quality clinical care to vulnerable populations, including asylum seekers, in a community outreach setting. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership and support while ensuring the highest standards of care. With a focus on patient-centered service delivery, this position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of those experiencing homelessness. If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for improving health outcomes, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must have a Master's in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent experience.
• V300 Non-medical prescribing qualification is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced clinical care for patients in the Homeless Health Team.
• Supervise and develop junior members of the multi-professional team.
• Lead on clinical audits and provide clinical leadership.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Change management

Negotiation and conflict management skills

IT literate

EMIS

ICE

RIO

Education

Full Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice

V300 Non-medical prescribing

Registration with relevant clinical body

Tools

EMIS

ICE

RIO

Job description

The St Helens Homeless Health team are looking to recruit an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a background in physical health to cover parental leave. The clinician will work alongside colleagues to support the homeless population in St Helens including Asylum seekers. The role is very much based on a community outreach model and you will form part of a wider team including mental health professionals and assistant practitioners. Clinics take place in GP practices, hostels, and the Homeless hubs.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice within their recognised remit. Working within the local and nationally agreed frameworks, the Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will exercise independent judgment to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate the clinical care and management of patients within their care.

The ACPs will provide the teams with advanced clinical leadership, having undergone training to meet all academic and core clinical requirements (4 pillars of advanced practice) relevant to the role. The ACPs' reporting lines will be via the Community Division leadership structure. They will work alongside and support the education and development of trainee APs and the wider MDT within the Community Division.

The ACP will have key working relationships with all members of the nursing, medical and multidisciplinary teams, trust management teams, and wider partners.

The Band 8a ACP practices in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

1. Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients referred into the Homeless Health Team.
2. Ensure the Homeless Health Team has consistent clinical support.
3. Prioritise workload and clinical interventions as appropriate.
4. To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC).
5. Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
6. To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients.
7. Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate.
8. Take responsibility for the supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.
9. Identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests, interpret the results, and act on any results requiring clinical intervention or management.
10. Identify and intervene proactively where circumstances contribute to an unsafe environment for patients, staff, or relatives and escalate these to the health and safety team/safeguarding team.
11. Share knowledge and expertise, acting as an expert resource to others across primary and secondary care as appropriate.
12. Contribute to the development and improvement of systems and processes that facilitate patient flow, facilitating timely discharge and preventing hospital admission.
13. Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients including issues pertaining to child protection & vulnerable adults.
14. Must have completed the Independent Non-Medical Prescribing course and registration with the NMC or HCPC, undertake non-medical prescribing in accordance with the Trust non-medical prescribing policy and maintain evidence and competence of this qualification. Adhere to CPD requirements of the Trust in relation to maintaining evidence of ongoing competence.
15. Maintain up-to-date patient records in accordance with Trust policy and professional bodies standards.
16. Adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care throughout the Homeless Health Team.
17. Provide advice on patient care to the wider MDT taking into account all aspects of clinical Governance and act as a specialist resource within the working area.
18. Promote and adhere to the principles and practice of the Trusts clinical governance framework.
19. Contribute to the review and development of clinical patient pathways and the development of the service, ensuring our services are safe.
20. Adhere to trust infection and prevention control policies and procedures. Maintain up-to-date qualifications in relation to Intermediate life support (ILS).
21. Adhere to IRMER regulations within the ACP role and the agreed Trust radiology policies for the ACP role.
22. Lead on the review and implementation of appropriate NICE guidance.
23. Support the Homeless Health Team with clinical competencies.
24. Be the key link for other teams within the Community Division.
25. Be the key link person to develop relationships with Integrated Care Teams (ICTs).
26. Be the key link person for educating staff around a specific area of expertise.
27. Lead on clinical audits.
28. Act as a link for secondary care to discuss potential patient admissions/discharge through collaborative working.
29. Provide clinical leadership and support.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registration with relevant clinical body
• Full Masters in advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent experience or qualification, such as relevant in-depth experience and postgraduate/registration study/qualification
• V300 Non-medical prescribing

Knowledge/Experience

• Working autonomously in an advanced role
• Proven leadership skills
• Non-medical prescriber
• Research
• Audits
• Community experience
• Working within a multi-disciplinary led environment

Values

• Improvement
• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Change management
• Able to work across boundaries within primary and offering support to secondary care
• Negotiation and conflict management skills
• IT literate
• EMIS
• ICE
• RIO

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.

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum pro rata