Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join the Hospital at Home team in Yeovil. This role involves providing acute care to patients in their home environment, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and ensuring high-quality patient management. Ideal candidates will have advanced clinical skills and must hold relevant professional registration and postgraduate qualifications. This position offers flexible working hours and a competitive salary of £55,690 to £62,682 per year.

Benefits

Flexible working options

NHS pension scheme

Generous annual leave allowance

Career development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Enable patients to receive acute care in home settings.
• Manage complete episodes of care in collaboration with medical teams.
• Develop and lead clinical pathways for patient care.

Skills

Advanced clinical skills

Non-medical prescribing

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Education

MSc Advanced Practice

Professional Registration (NMC, HCPC)

Tools

Patient management systems

Clinical assessment tools

Job description

Hospital at Home Frailty ward have an exciting opportunity for a practitioner with advanced skills to join the team. We have 2 full time post available one set within the team

Are you a compassionate Registered professional with advanced clinical skills seeking an opportunity to work within a hospital at home team and understand what the service can offer patient within somerset in order to keep the patient within own home environment.

Our service covers the urban and rural areas of Somerset, predominantly based in one area however cross cover especially at weekends and time of service needs will be required.

Hospital at Home operate between 8am and 8pm we offer a variety of shift within our rota.

We offer flexible working solutions where possible to ensure a work-life balance . Weekend cover is required as part of the role. 30 hours is minimal contract hours for this role.

If you're a qualified practitioner with advanced skill looking for a rewarding challenge , join our friendly, and highly skilled team of ACP and trainee ACP, Medics and support staff. We can offer you training and supervision to support and guide you in your new role.

Advanced skills such as non- medical prescribing are essential for this role.

You'll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.

Main duties of the job

Hospital at Home enabling people to receive acute care and treatments in home surroundings with support from a team of health and care professionals.

Attend MDT and huddles to discuss patient caseload and plan intervention.

Carry out autonomous assessment and treatment plans for patient within the caseload , manage expectation of patients.

work within scope of practice and seek opportunity for learning from other within team.

Open and honest communication with patients, family and stakeholders.

Prioritise own time and support team to ensure caseload is managed.

Build relationship with neighbourhood teams to support patient to remain within own home.

Work with Internal and external teams to promote Hospital at home.

Participle in service development , identify own needs and support training to team and other teams in directorate.

Ensure as a ACP your meeting the 4 pillars of the role.

About us

At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.

The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.

Job responsibilities

Hospital at Home- enabling people to receive acute care and treatments in home surroundings with support from a team of health and care professionals.

To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within the Hospital at Home service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence based judgements and diagnoses,

To plan and manage complete episodes of care. This will be working in collaboration with senior medical colleagues and others when required. Delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management to optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.

To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing, updating and leading clinical pathways.

To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence base, in accordance with values-based care

Please see full job description for all aspects of the Role

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Registration with either NMC, HCPC
• Evidence of MSc level education. Such as:
• MSc Advanced Practice.
• Equivalent other MSc mapped to the four pillars of advanced practice.
• Leadership management course or validated portfolio evidence (if not part of MSc level qualification)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Completed ACP training within relevant clinical field
• Non-Medical Prescribing if appropriate to registered profession role.
• Demonstrated competence at an advanced practice level through Royal College or HEE Credentialing
• Relevant role specific qualifications (i.e. Advanced Resuscitation )

Experience

• Significant experience of working as a registered practitioner in a provider organisation (e.g. acute sector, community provider, third sector, social care or primary care) and within a relevant speciality (suggested 4-5 years minimum)
• Evidence of recent teaching, mentorship and supervision of staff
• Evidence of recent audit and/or research experience
• Experience of multi-professional working
• Ability to interpret and evaluate national and international guidelines and apply to local protocols and practice as appropriate
• Able to use high-level problem-solving and analytical skills and manage complexity
• Effective time-management and prioritisation skills
• Evidence of theoretical and practical skills allowing autonomous patient management (i.e. patient assessment,
• diagnosis and management) related to clinical scope of practice
• Understand, encourage and support clinical supervision and mentorship both within and across professional roles
• Effective leadership skills relevant to role (i.e. demonstrated ability to provide clinical professional leadership)
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Educational skills such as identification of learning needs, delivery and evaluation, providing work based learning
• Evidence of involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement

Additional Criteria

• Works under own initiative with strong organisational skills and ability to achieve to deadlines
• Appropriate level of I.T literacy (i.e., for radiology, pathology, microbiology ordering as per Trust protocols, utilising patient systems)
• Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
• Access to a vehicle for travelling within and outside the trust boundaries
• Ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders including to service users, clinicians, and senior leadership teams.
• This will require proven ability and leadership skills demonstrating motivational, visionary, diplomacy and negotiation skills

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearwould accept band 7 trainee