Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Trainee ACP for Frailty
Band 7-8a depending on qualifications
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our Frailty team. The successful candidate will provide day to day expertise across the organisation, exercising advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision-making in specifically Frailty SDEC and the Frailty wards, demonstrated through, and supported by, professional portfolio evidence.
The role requires considerable tenacity and autonomous thinking to ensure that the right escalations, clinical actions and advice is made to ensure that the patient pathway to treatment is not subject to unnecessary delays.
This may also be offered as a training position to a suitably experienced candidate.
Main duties of the job
* To act as an autonomous practitioner, making critical clinical decisions independently when diagnosing, monitoring and managing our frailty patients
* To independently prescribe and request additional diagnostics to improve and support frailty pathway, reducing unnecessary delays.
* The post holder will extend clinical practice and standards of care within the Frailty service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service improvement in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* To improve outcomes for patients by improving frailty services and quality of care for frailty patients.
* To act as a resource for junior doctors and registered nurses requiring specialist support.
* To act as a resource for patients requiring specialist support.
* To act as an interface between medical practitioners, nursing staff, the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
* To support medical staff in the management of patients with frailty.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for full details, available in documents. Thank you.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* Degree Level, NMC or HCPC registered
* Masters diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice/Health Assessment or equivalent post-graduate study Level 7*
* MSc Advanced Practice/ willingness to complete MSc Advanced Practice
* Teaching/ Assessment and mentoring qualification
* IRMER Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations certificate
* Portfolio of evidence in line with RCEM (Royal College of Emergency Medicine) credentialing: IF ED ONLY
Experience
* Significant relevant post-registration experience within the speciality
* Competent in the planning and managing of complete clinical episodes of care for all patients; working autonomously
* Experience of teaching at informal and formal level.
* Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team.
* Participated in research, audit and developed service improvement strategies.
* Experience in delivering service improvement
* Proven leadership skills
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
* Demonstrable clinical skills in speciality
* Advanced knowledge of the range of presentations, diagnoses & current management options within the speciality area
* Evidence of planning & organisational skills
* Completion/ working towards/willingness to complete speciality portfolio (where required and if indicated nationally).
* Demonstrates up to date theoretical and clinical knowledge and expertise of Advanced Practice
* Evidence of being able to work in partnership across organisational boundaries, delegating and referring as appropriate
* Experience of applying research evidence to clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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