Clinical Perform comprehensive clinical assessment and manage their own caseload of patients. Requests, performs, interprets, and follows up on diagnostics tests to support clinical decision making. Interpret and analyse virtual diagnostic test results and complete reports for community services, patients, and their GPs. Leadership and management Acts as a proactive clinical leader, demonstrating effective leadership skills. Promotes best practice for the patients, using standards, clinical guidelines, and research/audit findings. Develops and leads service improvement, utilising the transformation and quality improvement agenda. Acts as a resource in providing clinical leadership and advice to other teams and individuals and or other organisations, sharing knowledge and expertise. Leads on the risk management agenda for the caseload, reporting and or investigating incidents and complaints. Education Undertakes statutory and mandatory training as required by the Trust. Participates in the theoretical and clinical education and training of others. To develop and maintain a positive learning environment for the team by providing support, ensuring developmental requirements are addressed Ensures that own skills and competence are regularly and actively updated in the light of research, audit, and knowledge. Research Assists in data collection for local, national, and multi-centre research projects. Identifies areas for research and audit, liaising with the research and audit teams. Analyses audit and research findings and interprets them for practice changes. Prepares and presents reports on audit and research to the multi-disciplinary team and or corporate team Strategic Planning Contributes to the delivery of the Trusts AHP or Nursing & Midwifery Strategy. Acts a member of the senior nurse or AHP team to promote the effective and efficient delivery of AHP, nursing and midwifery care at the Trust. Attends strategic planning meetings to support the ACP role at the Trust. Contributes to the further development of future expert roles such as the Nurse or AHP Consultants. Operational Planning and Service Delivery Ensures the quality, standard, and range of care provided are optimised within the available resources and in line with contract requirements. Develops an effective and responsive organisational infrastructure capable of achieving planned objectives and incorporating control and audit systems for monitoring service performance against corporate objectives and the business plan. Exercises duties within the corporate policies and guidelines of Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Ensures the production of Speciality Business Plans, Service Specifications, and Annual Report for the Division. People Management and Development Provides ongoing support to the Divisional Chief Nurse, Heads of Service and Lead ACP, deputising at meetings, internal and external to the Trust, as and when required. With the Divisional Chief Nurse, Heads of Service, Lead ACP, and Consultants develop a flexible workforce plan to include competencies required and availability of experienced staff, which anticipates changes in the service. Please refer to the job description for further details. We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us. MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices. We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received. MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology. By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.