The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will assess, diagnose, treat and make the decision to admit or discharge adult patients, safely ensuring appropriate advice, health education and referral to appropriate services or other members of the MDT under minimal supervision from the Acute Medicine consultant medical team. Be able to manage their own caseload in response to unpredictable patterns of work. Act as a clinical expert in patient care, able to make high level clinical decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills. Facilitates expert inter-professional care for the ill patient and their dependants by direction, supervision and example; and maintenance of all records.
Able to provide advanced clinical skills and knowledge to medical and nursing staff within the acute medicine and urgent care division. Initiates, undertakes and evaluate research and audit. Develops and deliver educational programmes for staff locally and will work with Advanced Clinical Practitioners locally/nationally to develop advanced nursing practice. Ordering and interpreting radiological imaging is an integral part of the role.
This a designated nonmedical prescribing position. It is anticipated that 80% of the time will be spent in the clinical area with 20% non-clinical time relating to the other three pillars of advanced practice.