Band 8A - Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job Introduction

Are you ready for the next chapter in your ACP journey? Wiltshire Health and Care have an exciting full time opportunity for a fully qualified or trainee ACP to join the Hospital at Home team at Wiltshire Health and Care. You will be based in north Wiltshire alongside a clinical team comprising Consultant Practitioners/Associate Specialists/GP trainees and other ACPs supporting the team with the medical aspects of the patient care.

Applications are invited from candidates who are a Registered Nurse or Health Care Professional, holding a MSc in Advanced Practice (or working towards) and have relevant post registration experience. Experience at Band 6 or above with knowledge of effective change management skills and a proven track record in the delivery of high-quality clinical care and Non-Medical Prescribing are essential.

For any information please contact Rachel Scott - rachel.scott13@nhs.net

Main Responsibility

1. To deliver a clinically autonomous Advanced Clinical Practitioner service to the Community Teams in line with national and organisational standards - Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, focus on frailty.
2. To assess and manage patients on a virtual ward (Hospital @ Home) with a variety of complex health issues to avoid unnecessary acute care admissions.
3. The post holder will be able to combine advanced clinical expertise and assessment to establish a diagnosis, including referral for investigation, intervention and treatment with minimal avoidable delay and lead the co-ordination of care working with partner agencies and key stakeholders.
4. Will be an expert resource, providing a visible clinical patient profile (90%) and have management and advisory responsibilities.
5. The post holder will put the patient at the centre of all decisions taking into consideration any patient decisions regarding on-going and future care management.
6. Negotiate and agree with the patient, carers and other care professionals, individual roles and responsibilities with actions to be taken and outcomes to be achieved, referring on to other services or professionals as appropriate.
7. To provide professional/clinical leadership to the Nursing or AHP staff in the Community Team as and where appropriate/agreed.
8. To provide high standards of care to patients and support the Community Team Business Manager in improving quality of care.
9. Where appropriate avoid unnecessary transfer of the patient to acute secondary care.
10. To be a visible leader in the Community team working in conjunction with the nursing and therapy teams.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with clinical expertise and a passion for care. The successful candidate will be a team player who is flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service, who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality care.

Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• First level nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, or Paramedic degree
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
• History Taking and Physical Assessment module at Masters level
• Diagnostics module at Masters level
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or willingness to work towards.
• Previous experience in gerontology or a relevant medical speciality at band 6 or above.
• Evidence in challenging clinical practice and leading in the development of new pathways of care and delivering best practice.

Other Requirements - A clean driving licence, access to a vehicle for daily use.

Package Description

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team in North Wiltshire. You will feel valued as a Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £53,755 - £60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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