Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Urgent and Integrated
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: To cover service hours 8am-8pm (7 days)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 779-NN-6208856-AHP-Z-A
- Employer
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Teddington Memorial Hospital
- Town
- Teddington
- Salary
- £56,388 - £62,785 pro rata per annum including HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
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From the autumn, HRCH community services for Hounslow will be provided by West London NHS Trust. HRCH will continue to provide community services in the borough of Richmond.
HRCH is a great place to work, and we're committed to staff development, so if you're interested in joining our team, we encourage you to apply.
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Job overview
We have an amazing opportunity for a qualified Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Richmond Response and Rehabilitation Team (RRRT) to support the UCR service in the borough of Richmond.
Advanced Clinical Practice should be delivered by experienced registered health and care practitioners. It is a level of practice characterised by a high level of autonomy and complex decision making. This is underpinned by a Masters level award or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of practice:
- Clinical practice
- Leadership and management
- Research
- Education
What we are looking for:
- Completed MSc in advanced Clinical Practice or Relevant ANP courses at level 7 or equivalent in Advanced Physical Assessment skills, Minor Illness, disease management, etc.
- A Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Teaching qualification i.e., 998 or equivalent (Desirable)
- Satisfactory DBS clearance
- Experience of managing acute undifferentiated presentations
- Ability to triage
- Good understanding of autonomous practice within community services including prevention of hospital admission and discharge to assess and the roles that deliver this
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job:
In addition to standard nursing/ therapeutic duties, the post holders will be:
- Accountable for clinical governance and leadership within the service.
- Expected to work across organisational and professional boundaries
- Develop effective partnerships working in accordance with agreed Trust, South West London and national strategic direction.
- Implementing evidence-based practice is inherent throughout all aspects of care delivery and treatment, to ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the service and trust.
Working for our organisation
Benefits offered:
- NHS Pension scheme
- Unsocial hours payment at 0.3 on a Saturday and 0.6 Sundays and Bank Holidays, to be applied to your standard rate
- CPD time (3% of weekly hours)
- Support with funding towards training as part of PDP
- Car salary saving scheme
- Flexible working
- Ride to Work Cycle Scheme
- Annual season ticket loan scheme
- Discounted Cinema Tickets, Gym Memberships and More
- Generous annual leave
- Free counselling service
- Free and subsided exercise and mindfulness classes
- Fast-track access to physiotherapy
Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It’s personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It’s the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.
In 2018, we were named ‘Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction’ by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.
We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year. We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.
Infection Control
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Description:
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert
We encourage applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, and applicants with a disability and/or long-term health condition, as these groups are underrepresented in senior roles.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent
- Current professional registration (HCPC, NMC etc.)
- Master’s degree in advanced clinical education, or equivalent level 7 education (ACP) or training relevant to role
- Independent Prescriber or willing to undertake training within 6 months (if appropriate to profession)
Experience
Essential criteria
- 5 years post registration minimum
- Expert clinical skills and ability to work outside traditional boundaries
- Collaborative working with a range of multi-agency and inter professional resources
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of publication or ability to write to this standard
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate highly complex information effectively and clearly at all
- Using expertise and decision-making skills to inform advanced clinical reasoning approaches, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses
- Ability to undertake risk assessment and risk management especially with complex and unpredictable events; implementing solutions to immediate problems
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Underpinning and enhanced knowledge to assess and diagnose a range of highly complex conditions using holistic assessment; identifying risk factors; mental health assessments; requesting, undertaking and/or interpreting diagnostic tests; providing appropriate advanced treatment options
- Engaging in horizon scanning for future developments (e.g. impacts of genomics, new treatments and changing social challenges).
- Good working knowledge of all areas of clinical governance including quality, safety and risk management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tharani Pathmarajah
- Job title
- RRRT Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07586478117
- Additional information
Location: Elsie Foley Suite, Teddington Memorial Hospital, Hampton Road, TW11 0JL
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