Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Whitby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner at a leading NHS Trust in Whitby. You will join a dynamic Multi Disciplinary Team, providing expert care in a newly created nurse-led service. This role emphasizes autonomy and advanced clinical decision-making, making a significant impact on patient care.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Current professional registration (HPC or NMC).
• Advanced understanding of clinical practice standards.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing certification.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe, effective clinical decision-making and expert quality care.
• Provide high standards of patient care and embed clinical policies.
• Work autonomously and demonstrate advanced clinical skills.

Skills

Effective interpersonal skills

Good time management

Critical clinical judgement

Education

Masters Degree in Advanced Clinical Practice

Teaching Certificate

Job description

A great opportunity has risen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work alongside our skilled Multi Disciplinary Team, over a 7 day rota period, to ensure that there is an effective nurse led service on our inpatient ward. This role is newly created to enable a nurse led service, you will join our current Advanced practitioners and between the three of you will cover over 7 days.

The memorial ward is a 16 bedded inpatient unit providing treatment for Adult patients who have been transferred from acute hospitals. The admission criteria is to provide patients with rehabilitation, symptom control and end of life care, this includes those who are community step up admissions.

The ward has been through a change from a medical model, to now having a focus of becoming an Advanced Care Practitioner / Nurse led inpatient unit.

The post holder will be required to work autonomously, without immediate support and supervision. You will deliver safe, effective clinical decision-making and expert quality care, including assessment, diagnosis, clinical management and evaluation to the community services patients specially but not exclusively those under the care of the community inpatient wards.

The role encompasses the four pillars of clinical practise, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.

Those in ACP training in year 2 onwards may be considered. Bank can also be considered for those that achieve the interview benchmark.

Main duties of the job

• An Advanced Clinical Practitioner is a highly qualified and experienced registered Health Care Professional; you will be a Nurse, Paramedic or Physiotherapist who is qualified with an appropriate master's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice relevant to Community Services.
• It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making across an expanded scope of practise.
• The post holder will be accountable for his or her own area of practise and be compliant with their respective code of practise.
• The post holder must work at all times within your own competence and use your own judgement, knowledge and common sense in your day-to-day activitiesensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
• The post holder will provide high standards of patient care, embed clinical policies and guidelines and standardise clinical governance within the practice.
• The post holder will work with the locality matron to standardise policies and patient care.
• They will continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice on service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, across the Hull and East Riding residential and nursing homes.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Current professional registration - this could be HPC or NMC
• Educated to Masters Degree level
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and protocols within identified clinical area
• Teaching Certificate

Experience

• Evidence of sound post registration professional practice
• Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this in practice.
• Able to demonstrate leadership and management of a team.
• Evidence of working at a clinically advanced level using the 4 pillars.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
• Extensive clinical experience with physical health settings
• A range of advanced clinical practice skills within a specific area of practice.
• Experience in inpatient/ward or frailty/rehab settings in advanced autonomous role.

Skills and Competencies

• Effective interpersonal skills and experience of supervising, mentoring and teaching.
• Good time management
• Ability to use critical clinical judgement and decisions (within scope of practice) without supervisor.
• Proven experience of broad independent non medical prescribing practice
• Previous experience of working at an advanced level in a similar clinical setting.

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.