Job overview

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) with significant experience, excellent clinical leadership skills and working within Emergency Care?

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly skilled, motivated, and knowledgeable individual to join our team of highly skilled ACP’s working within the Emergency department autonomously providing exceptional care for our patients. 

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be part of the trust and its £26 million ambitious scheme which is set to transform service delivery and the face of emergency care with a purpose built Urgent and Emergency Care Centre which will care for more than 420,000 people who live in North Derbyshire.

We are keen to hear from compassionate and caring practitioners, who are NMC or HCPC registered who have an ambition to provide the best patient care who are interested in their own development whilst working effectively within complex teams as well as having the ability to lead and work in partnership across organisations.  

The post holder will become a specialist in their sphere of competence enabling innovative solutions to the care and experience our patients expect.

We are looking for a qualified ACP with a MSc Advanced Practice or within the last year of training, who is keen to develop their clinical skills working as part of multi-professional teams within a medical model.

Main duties of the job

Applicants will be required to utilise advanced clinical decision-making and clinical skills to effectively manage patients and have confidence to do this and the ability to communicate effectively. Applicants will be required to demonstrate these skills or ability to develop these skills as part of the selection process

To provide high quality clinical assessment and intervention and treatment for a wide variety of patients presenting to the ED including paediatrics

To work independently at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment.

The post holder will demonstrate safe clinical decision making and expert care including assessment and diagnostic skills for patients.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within both the nursing and medical/surgical teams and to support the lead ACP in developing the trusts ACP service to improve the patient experience.

Working for our organisation

Our vision: Exceptional patient care provided by exceptional people.

Our mission: To bring our people communities and partners together – providing patient care we can all be proud of., We all play a part in achieving this, by living up to the values we promise to our patients and each other. As members of staff we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values:

• COMPASSION
• AMBITION
• RESPECT
• ENCOURAGEMENT

Leading the Chesterfield Way
The ACP is a vital role within our organisation.  Leading the Chesterfield Way supports the Trust’s priorities and ambitions - and sets out the behaviours and characteristics that leaders are expected to adopt and that all staff can role model, to make the Trust an even better place to work; and to support the delivery of exceptional patient care.  It provides a framework for leadership and supports individual progression through appraisal, career progression and personal development.

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

COVID19 Vaccination

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

 UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.  Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route.  Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be  eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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