Detailed job description
and main responsibilities
Job Title:
LeadAdvancedClinicalPractitioner-Older Persons Services
Band
Band8b
Care Group
Medicine
Directorate:
Older peoples Services and acute medicine Directorate
Department:
Older Peoples Services (SDEC and Ambulatory Service)
Location:
UHD
Accountable to:
Professionally - Senior Matron. Clinically –OPS Clinical Lead
Accountable for:
SDEC and Ambulatory Service
Main Purpose
To provide leadership to ACP SDEC leads within the Older Persons SDEC Service. Facilitating the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within OPS SDEC using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
o provide leadership to ACP’s within the Ambulatory Service for Older Peoples Services, including Day Hospital, Hospital at Home and Ambulatory Clinic. These services are located across all UHD sites and are imperative to enabling a streamlined service for the front door.
The Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner will be required to work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the teams across the directorate. Facilitating the current model of working which includes an In-reach Service to the Emergency Department to pull patients through to SDEC. Collaboratively working alongside Consultants when assessing appropriate referrals via GP Services.
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the ACP service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Person specification
ESSENTIAL
Essential criteria
1. QUALIFICATIONS - MASTERS IN ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE & REGISTRATION, PRESCRIBER, TEACHING, BUDGET, ALS AND IONISING RADIATION
2. EXPERIENCE - MINIMUM OF 5 YEARS, MDT, ACUTE SETTING, ADVANCED SKILLS, POLICY, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, RESEARCH & DEVELOPING PEOPLE
3. TECHNICAL SKILLS - INDEPENDANT AND CLINICAL REASONING, AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE, ANALYTICAL SKILLS, WORKING UNDER PRESSURE
4. KNOWLEDGE - SPECIALITY, TRUST POLICIES & PROCEDURES INCLUDING LOCAL AND NATIONAL POLICIES RELATED TO THE SPECIALITY, ORGANISATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL BOUNDRIES, LEGAL & ETHICAL ISSUES OF ADVANCED PRACTICE
5. OTHER - COMPUTER LITERACY, ABILITY TO CREATE REPORTS, FLEXIBLE WORKING, COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING PATIENT SERVICES
6. PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES - TEAM PLAYER, PROBLEM SOLVER, COMMUNICATION SKILLS, ACCOUNTABLITIY BOTH PERSONAL, OPEN & HONEST, CAN DO ATTITUDE, SELF MOTIVATED & RELIABLE, ABILITY TO TAKE ON CHALLENGES, DRIVEN AND CUSTOMER FOCUSED, SERVICE LED
DESIREABLE
Desirable criteria
7. QUALIFICTAIONS - RECOGNITION AS ADVANCED PRACTITIONER BY THE NCAP, RECOGNISED LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATION
8. EXPERIENCE - PUBLICATION/CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE
9. COMPETENCIES - PROVEN PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE