Band 8A Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Band 8A Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a passion for community care? UHB Community have an exciting new opportunity for you to join our evolving team, providing quality, compassionate care to patients in their own homes.

We are embarking on a transformation programme which includes developing new roles to lead, develop and deliver person-centred, outcome-based care as part of our Locality Operating Model including, Locality Hub, Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward programmes. You will play a critical role in supporting patients as part of the strategy across Solihull to ensure care is provided by the right person, at the right time, in the right place, ensuring advanced assessment and care planning which enable patients to remain and be managed safely at home.

We are looking for people who can provide outstanding clinical care whilst being able to lead and inspire others with experience of engaging across multiple health and social care partners. You will be able to support others, encourage their ideas and perspectives, and prioritise effectively to support the service delivery.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will actively support the development of admission avoidance pathways within an evolving integrated service to deliver safe and effective care and admission avoidance pathways across the local health, social care and voluntary sector economy.

You will be responsible for delivering and supporting high quality care and act as an expert practitioner and a role model for the team demonstrating advanced clinical practice skills and decision making offering a patient centred approach to care planning and maximising independence and well-being of those referred to the service.

You will assist with the development of an integrated approach to the delivery of service involving all relevant stakeholders including health and social care organisations to achieve reduction in admission and embed robust admission avoidance pathways in the community.

You will be able to manage your own workload and work unsupervised supported by appropriate and regular clinical supervision.

You will act as a clinical expert in direct contact care, able to make high level skills decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.

You will be able to drive and have access to a car to use as part of your working day.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Healthcare Registration with a UK Regulatory Body (NMC / HCPC / GPC)
• Post Graduate Qualification in specific speciality or equivalent experience
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice/ Level 7 equivalent portfolio or minimum of 120 CATs and working towards full MSc (must cover all 4 Pillars of advanced clinical practice) -- Portfolio must include evidence of health assessment module at Level 7
• Non-Medical Prescribing Course -- where applicable to registration
• Advanced Life Support Qualification
• Recognised Teaching & Assessing/ Mentoring Qualification / Course

Experience

• Extensive post registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area including significant and relevant senior clinical and leadership experience
• Evidence / experience of working in an MDT within a health care provider service
• Evidence of on-going CPD.
• Evidence of teaching in a variety of settings.
• A sound knowledge of professional priorities and issues relating to NHS care provision
• A knowledgeable clinician with ability to ensure clinical governance is embedded in practice
• Sound understanding of evidence-based practice and its application
• Knowledge of the national and local NHS healthcare agenda and its implications

Additional Criteria

• Advanced Clinical Assessment/ Practice skills
• Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills (verbal, nonverbal and written)
• Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Able to use initiative and make decisions supported by agreed standards
• Demonstrable effective time management and work organisation skills within autonomous practice to prioritise tasks and duties required to undertake the role consistently
• Knowledge & evidence of research/audit processes and application
• Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations
• Evidence of publication in healthcare journals/ National conference

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust