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Job overview

We are currently looking for an experienced, knowledgeable and educated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team on Adult Community Services - West Park. You will be able to work autonomously making high level decisions to treat health needs as part of the wider MDT.  

West Park Hospital is looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to proactively manage those patients still in receipt of hospital based care, optimising their condition to support rapid onward transfer to the place they call home. There will be a requirement to facilitate ward rounds, huddles and undertake planned and unplanned clinical interventions to prevent a transfer back to the acute site.

The role will be integral to ensuring that West Park continues to be a vibrant community hospital that offers specialist rehab across the Black Country, and the successful candidate will need to work collaboratively with the ACS management team and West Park clinical teams to deliver this.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy and make critical judgements to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role and service. The post holder will support the Medical team in developing a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients. This post is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families and populations.

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.

To be accountable for :

• Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
• Enhancing the patient’s experience
• Managing and developing the performance of the team
• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives
• Political and strategic awareness
• Promoting health and healthy lifestyles within the direct community.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.