Overview
Care Home Advanced Clinical Practitioner. What matters to me, is what matters to us.
Calling all frailty-minded practitioners and generalists
Are you Advanced Clinical Practitioner or a training ACP interested in older people’s care, frailty or palliative care? Are you frustrated at not having the time or capability to sort out complex problems properly? Do you often get the feeling that you could be doing more to improve quality of care for our most experienced members of society?
If so, come and find your tribe at the One Weston Care Home Hub in North Somerset, based at 168 Medical.
Responsibilities
Main duties of the job: An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, compassionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner (or training ACP) to join our award-winning, growing, multidisciplinary team at the One Weston Care Home Hub. If you are passionate about providing high-quality care for older people and would enjoy practising holistic medicine within a friendly, supportive team then this job would suit you. The right candidate will have outstanding communication skills, alongside commitment to lifelong learning and clinical excellence. We seek a reflective, adaptive, collaborative practitioner with enthusiasm for team working. This unique role would suit a curious professional who thrives when working autonomously but with peer support. Experience of palliative care, multimorbidity, care of older people or those living with dementia or learning difficulties would be valuable. Understanding of the needs of our local Weston community would be advantageous.
About the role and the team
The One Weston Care Home Hub is a true multidisciplinary team, established in 2021, bringing together a range of allied health professionals and GPs to work towards improving care for care home residents in Weston Super Mare. Working alongside a friendly, dedicated team of GPs and allied health professionals (pharmacists, community nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, a paramedic and a mental health nurse) this innovative project is transforming community care in some of the most deprived wards in the country. Excellent admin support enables clinicians to focus on clinical matters.
The role of the ACP within the team includes providing clinical assessment of care home residents, undertaking holistic assessments, producing dynamic personalised care plans, ensuring treatment escalation planning and completion of ReSPECT forms where appropriate, providing continuity of care, supporting complex decision-making, and contributing to peer learning and education. The ACP will also provide supervision and feedback to students and MDT members, promote adult safeguarding, advocate for high-quality patient-centred care, and manage documentation within patient record systems in line with standards. The ACP may prescribe in accordance with local formulary, and will be involved in imaging/investigations decisions and continuous improvement activities. Outreach and collaboration with care homes and PCN teams are also part of the role.
How we work
Each day starts with a whole-team check-in (in person or via Microsoft Teams) to discuss wellbeing, problems and workload. The clinical lead of the day is assigned during this meeting. The practitioner may then conduct ward rounds, comprehensive geriatric assessments, care planning and liaison with families and partners. There is protected time for learning, teaching, supervision, quality improvement and meetings, conducted across multiple formats (telephone, video, email, face-to-face). Regular 1:1 development meetings with team leads support career progression. We also have regular complex MDT input from a geriatrician and mental health colleagues at AWP.
Where
This work mainly takes place from our town centre Care Home Hub in a newly built surgery and the surrounding care homes. There is scope to work remotely at times.
Experience & Qualifications
Experience
* At least 5 years experience of working with older people in a community or emergency healthcare setting at Band 6 AfC equivalence or above
* Substantial experience with complexity
* Autonomous working (within scope of 4 pillars of advanced practice)
* Primary Care, Community nursing and therapies, or emergency care practitioner background
* Additional experience in: Palliative Care, Mental Health, Learning Disability, Dementia
Qualifications
* Registration with a health governing body (e.g., NMC, HCPC)
* Nursing or AHP related degree
* Postgraduate courses related to end of life care or recognising unwell patients
* Independent/Non-medical Prescriber V300 (or willingness to work towards this)
* Advanced Practice MSc
* Diploma of Geriatric Medicine
Skills
* Experience working with Frailty (including holistic assessments, history taking, problem listing and management planning)
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