Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Same Day Emergency Care

Imperial College Healthcare NHS; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Cycle to Work

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust operates two Same Day Emergency Care units at the St Mary’s and Charing Cross sites and is expanding the service to optimise patient pathways.

They are seeking energetic, enthusiastic practitioners with at least 1 year of emergency or acute medicine experience to join the expansion and enhance the quality of care for patients, working with leading clinicians and a supportive team.

Qualifications

• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting to the Same Day Emergency Care services.
• Empower patients to make informed choices by applying and explaining evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities

• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions for SDEC patients.
• Empower patients with information to participate in decisions about their care.
• Use expertise to inform clinical reasoning in complex presentations.
• Maintain and share service-related information to make evidence-based judgments.
• Initiate and modify interventions including medicines and lifestyle advice.
• Manage risk and support the team to ensure patient safety.
• Collaborate with MDT and broader healthcare system to manage risk across settings.
• Communicate clearly with patients and carers, including breaking down complex information and delivering sensitive news.

Skills

Emergency medicine experience

Clinical reasoning

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

Same day emergency care has become pivotal to delivering urgent and emergency care. It offers the opportunity to get involved in the delivery of new models of care, a range of presentations and exciting case mix in a controlled and supportive environment. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has two emergency medicine run SDEC units on the St Mary's and Charing Cross sites and are expanding the service on both sites to optimise patient pathways.,

• Assess diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting to the Same Day Emergency Care services
• Empower patients to make informed choices and decisions by applying, sharing and explaining advanced specialist knowledge of research outcomes and evidence-based practice.
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
• Use and provide service-related information from a range of sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and diagnoses.
• Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions that may include prescribing medicines, therapies, life style advice and care.
• Exercise professional judgement to manage risk in complex and unpredictable events or cases. Provide support to the team to ensure the safety of patients, families and carers.
• Work collaboratively with the MDT and more widely across the healthcare system to develop, maintain and evaluate methods to manage risk and issues across a range of settings.
• Communicate effectively with diverse groups; patients, carers, relatives where the practitioner may need to breakdown and interpret highly complex information in order to provide reassurance and/or ensure understanding and motivate the individual to co-operate with their treatment plan. The practitioner may also need to break bad news in a sensitive, empathetic manner. We are looking for energetic, enthusiastic practitioners with a minimum of 1 year experience in emergency or acute medicine who will contribute to this expansion and enhancement of the quality of care to patients. We work alongside acute medicine SDEC and collaborate closely with other specialties. At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
• Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.