Advanced Clinical Practitioner - UEC

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join a seven-day urgent and emergency care service. The role supports home-based care with face-to-face visits and digital tools, delivering assessment, diagnosis, prescription and comprehensive management for patients who can be treated at home.

You'll work autonomously within the multidisciplinary team across general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory and Cardiology, guided by the National Framework for

Qualifications

• Deliver advanced clinical judgments and autonomous practice.
• Provide holistic, patient-centered care in home or community settings.
• Collaborate with MDTs across medicine, frailty, respiratory and cardiology.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advanced level of clinical practice autonomously.
• Assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate care.
• Support seven-day UEC services with home visits and digital tools.
• Work within the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice within leadership/education/research pillars.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Autonomous decision making

Holistic patient care

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Education

Advanced Clinical Practitioner qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) Services which include Urgent Community Response (UCR), Virtual Ward (VW) and Integrated front door (IFD). The post will form part of a seven-day service based within one of the Trust's locality teams. The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health, a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology. We are looking for Advanced Clinical Practitioner's (ACP) who share our passion for providing excellent quality of care and can devise and support the delivery of a holistic and thorough treatment plan to service users in their own home. The post holders will have full access to the Multidisciplinary Team including consultant, GP, Pharmacist, Nurses, Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers., The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in the fields of general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology for patients who are supported by the team as an alternative to hospital admission. The role will ensure that consistent, high quality, person-centred care is provided daily through the application of advanced clinical judgments and critical thinking to assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care in line with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice. Embracing the four pillars of clinical practice; leadership and management, education and research. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff. Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.