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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a  Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Frailty team which is expanding and developing to cover a brand-new Frailty Unit and linking with community teams to support a virtual ward. The candidate must have a passion for frailty, be proactive and ideally have experience in caring for frail, elderly patients.  

Working as part of a Multi disciplinary team across the acute trust and liaising with our community colleagues, the successful candidate should strive to meet the highly complex needs of our patients. This is a partnership which demands we recruit original thinkers committed to providing high quality, safe care in the right place at the right time.  

The post holder will be part of the team responsible for completing holistic, integrated, and personalised care plans to ensure positive and robust outcomes for the patient. The post holder will be fundamental to ensure consistent delivery of the service and maintain communication in a joined up clinical approach across secondary and community care. The rapid expansion of the frailty unit offers the opportunity to join a service that is innovative and growing, and as the service develops the referral sources and specialities are expected to broaden further.  

Main duties of the job

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be expected to work alongside the medical and nursing teams to promote the delivery of a high standard of patient cantered care within a supported environment.

 Following successful completion of the MSc, the applicant will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the immediate care and subsequent management of the adult patient, liaising and reporting to middle grade medical staff.

 Utilising specialised clinical and theoretical knowledge, the ACP will assess the health status of the patient through complete physical examination, medical history and psychosocial history demonstrating a systematic and thorough approach toward problem solving.

The successful candidate will support in the provision of specialist education and training to facilitate the development of other members of the multidisciplinary team. Other key areas of the role include leading the development of clinical services and enhanced practice within the specialist field, working with clinical colleagues to develop and review both medical and nursing protocols, guidelines and standards of care through the process of clinical audit and quality improvement projects.

Working for our organisation

All staff at MCHFT have a responsibility to:

• Maintain active registration status
• Always act in accordance with professional Codes of Conduct and guiding documents
• Where applicable, always act in accordance with the Code of Conduct for NHS Managers,
• Maintain up to date skills and knowledge
• Maintain an awareness of patient led service issues
• Maintain a professional/personal portfolio
• Adhere to all Trust policy, procedures and guidelines.
• Adhere to Trust standards of behaviour and expected performance
• Comply with Infection Prevention and Control (IP&C) policies and procedures as appropriate to their role and responsibilities in their individual work setting. Staff are required to be personally accountable for their actions and be responsible for their own compliance in relation to IP&C polices, protocols or advice.
• Ensure they work in accordance with local procedures and report any issues which they consider to be a risk to the health and safety of themselves and/or others.
• Act in accordance with the Trusts values and behaviours
• Where applicable to participate in and provide data on the efficacy of treatment and specialties

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking to ensure that we provide equity of services across seven days of the week.  This post may be reviewed in line with this plan and in some cases an element of weekend working may be required.