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Acute Medicine Advanced Clinical Practitioner
The closing date is 29 October 2025
This role is offered on a full-time basis of 37.5 hrs per week. The Salary will be on a pro-rata basis.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for Advanced Clinical Practitioner's in our Acute Medical Assessment Unit.
Join our dynamic Team and take your career to the next level. We are currently seeking experienced and qualified practitioners who are ready to make a real impact.
If you're a passionate professional with a deep interest in Acute medicine and Same Day Emergency Care, this role is tailor-made for you.
As a registered professional with a Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will bring with you a wealth of clinical experience. Your expertise will be crucial in assessing, treating, and managing a diverse caseload of adults in our acute Medical Assessment Unit.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of job:
Will develop skills and knowledge to be able to assess individuals and families using person-centred approaches and a range of assessment methods examples being history taking, physical examination, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or conducting health needs assessment. This will include independent examination of the patient and obtaining specimens.
Is expected to progress clinical expertise to support decision making, particularly where clinical presentations are not directly covered by standard protocol or where highly complex or unusual aspects require specialised outcomes.
Take responsibility to autonomously manage a caseload of within specialist area. This will include management of any investigative results to deliver a clear diagnosis to the patient, on-going management plan and discharge arrangements.
Use a diverse range of knowledge to become competent in evidence based therapeutic interventions, which will include prescribing medication where legally allowed and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
To be conversant with the local and national policies relevant to advanced practice and the role of advanced clinical practitioner in specialist area.
About us
"Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives."
Job responsibilities
1. 6. The post holder will teach regularly on a range of subjects both locally and externally. This will be multi-disciplinary and will include the design, development and delivery of specialist training programmes.
2. 7. Use a range of IT systems which require the inputting of data, maintain patient records, whilst requesting and interpreting of diagnostics.
3. 8. Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management issues and in partnership with the lead advanced clinical practitioner, facilitate the implementation of standards, policies, procedures, competencies and clinical guidelines.
4. 9. Support and maintain safety, quality, clinical effectiveness and patient experience, working with clinical leaders to ensure culture and delivery of safe and effective harm free care. Upholding the culture of listening, whereby patients, relatives and carers are central to service delivery and development.
5. 10. Utilise expert analytical and critical thinking in conjunction with clinical skills to ensure that care and services are innovative, contemporaneous and clinically effective.
6. 11. Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information, where there may be substantial barriers to acceptance, using enhanced persuasive motivational negotiation, advanced empathetic and/or reassurance skills are required.
7. 12. Ensure continual quality monitoring and improvement that focuses on reducing risk and developing efficiency and quality in care
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Practitioner (NMC, HCPC)
* Masters degree in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Registered NMP (dependant on role requirement)
* Relevant clinical courses to enable history taking and clinical examination, diagnostic reasoning and differential diagnosis or willing to work towards
* Relevant NHS leadership qualification or working towards
Experience
* Significant experience in specialty at band 6 or above
* Clear and demonstrable evidence of competent practice in the management of patients
* Evidence of multi-professional, cross boundary, working
* Evidence of innovative practice developments
* Evidence of research, either individual or as part of the team
* Evidence of publication
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.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum pro rata
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