Job Overview
An exciting opportunity is available for a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our growing Virtual Ward ACP team, delivering a high‑quality hospital‑at‑home service across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
You will work within a dynamic and innovative service delivering pathways in:
* General Medicine
* Acute Respiratory Infection
* Heart Failure
* Frailty
* Surgery
This fixed term contract / secondment offers a fantastic chance to further develop advanced practice skills within a supportive multidisciplinary environment supported by consultant physicians
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in the fields of general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology for patients who are supported by the team as an alternative to hospital admission.
The role will ensure that consistent, high quality, person-centred care is provided daily through the application of advanced clinical judgments and critical thinking to assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care in line with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice. Embracing the four pillars of clinical practice; leadership and management, education and research.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
* MSc qualification in Advanced Practice
* Non-Medical Prescriber (V300)
* Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC / HCPC registration
* Relevant qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience in speciality (Frailty, Care of the elderly/Geriatric's, End of Life, ALS, minor injuries/illness)
* Evidence of recent CPD
* Teaching and Mentoring qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge and experience within an acute and/or community setting
* Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner as an ACP, managing patients with undiagnosed clinical conditions, requiring investigations, interpretation of diagnostics, formulation and adjustment of management plans
* Evidence in involvement in supporting the development of programmes if care, protocols and clinical audit
* Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objective
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
* ACP underpinned by theory and experience.
* Excellent time management and organisational skills
* Ability to translate and integrate evidence-based research/guidelines into the development of pathways of care.
* Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes, with the use of negotiation skills
* Computer literate and experience of working with clinical systems
* Excellent clinical reasoning/clinical decision- making
* Knowledge of NHS Community Services
Other
Essential criteria
* Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post – travel across Shropshire