Job summary
- Main area
- Advance Clinical Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 1 year (Fixed Term Contract 1 Year)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mixed shift pattern)
- Job ref
- 277-6822470-CPH
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Woolwich Centre
- Town
- Woolwich
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
Job overview
Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Band 8a
Permanent, full time - 37.5 hours per week
Service Operates
***Monday – Sunday including bank holidays, 8am-8.30 pm, mixed shift pattern - 8am -4pm; Early Shift, 12.30pm – 8.30 pm; Late Shift & 8am - 8.30 pm weekends (1 in 4)***
Oxleas Joint Emergency Team /Urgent Community Response Team have one new 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post available. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, whilst providing leadership and line management to junior colleagues within the integrated multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients in the community setting and the ability to lead a community team.
We welcome dynamic applicants from adult Nursing and AHP backgrounds. This is an exciting opportunity to join and further shape Greenwich's Urgent Community Response service.
Urgent community response teams provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Through these teams, older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, can get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours. This includes access to social care, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, medication prescribing and reviews enabling them to remain in their own home with support, treatment and intervention.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an innovative Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as a member of the Urgent Community Response team to support patients experiencing crisis ill health the team offer wider admission avoidance strategies.
The successful applicant will be working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner supporting the Urgent Community Response pathways to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and contribute to effective admission avoidance. The role incorporates high-level of advanced clinical assessment skills and use of the non-medical prescribing qualification to medically support complex patients within the community, presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.
You will be required to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process; identify gaps within the service and lead with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies. You will be actively involved in research and responsible for leading implementation of evidence based clinical changes as well as facilitating a positive team culture through effective clinical leadership, providing a clinical resource to colleagues as required and delivering training and education to the team and wider services to improve standards of service delivery.
Working for our organisation
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team in Greenwich provides a community rapid response to patients registered to Greenwich GP and / or who live in the London Borough of Greenwich seven days a week, Monday to Sunday from 8am to 8.30 pm. This service treats patients at home to avoid a hospital admission or readmission.
All referrals are triaged by a senior member of the team and if clinically necessary seen within two hours (patients will also be seen later that day or the next day if required) by a multidisciplinary team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Primary Care Nurses, Staff Nurses Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Health Care and Rehabilitation Assistants, Social Workers, social care assistants and highly experienced administrators.
The team is supported by the JET GPs , and works closely with hospital frailty teams, and colleagues in emergency care.
The team of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, and support staff complete comprehensive holistic assessments and provide short-term interventions for up to seven days.
The service is designed for people over 18
Referrals are accepted from both social care and healthcare professionals and we also accept self referrals.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- hold current professional registration with respective professional body NMC( Adult Registration / HCPC
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
- Accredited autonomous practitioner qualification Master’s/DiP in advanced practice or equivalent
- Leadership qualification
- Non-medical Prescribing V300 course
- Portfolio of evidence for advance clinical practice consolidation
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of education/training in specialist area (i.e. therapies, interventions, service-specialism)
- Post graduate certificate in education
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Minimum 6 years’ experience as HCP
- Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice minimum of 1 years’ experience as ACP or equivalent.
- Experience of service / practice development
- Experience in a range of care settings Primary Secondary Care Emergency Departments
- Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions
- Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion and equality
- Experience of leading research/quality improvement initiatives, developing and evaluating new ways of working
- Experience of leading a team
Desirable criteria
- Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
- Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced autonomous clinical assessment
- Critical decision-making skills/ Advanced problem-solving skills
- Competence in requesting and interpretation of required investigations
- Advanced level written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of appraisals
- Full driving license with access to car
- Clinical Audit and interest in research
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
- Self-motivated towards own practice and development
- Confident and competent in approach to practice
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of radiology requesting
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Willingness / ability to work flexibly (time and location)
- Willingness to undertake further training and education relevant to practice and service need
- Supportive, friendly, adaptable and patient focussed
- Effective interpersonal skills with colleagues, patients and public
- Mental Effort Expected to concentrate for long periods of time when assessing patients Need to have constant vigilance and awareness of the client and environment.
- Ability to work flexibly to deal with interruption regarding service issues.
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
- Demonstrate commitment to support national and Trust strategies and objectives for clinical care and advanced clinical practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Josephine Daley
- Job title
- Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02089218969
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