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Main area
Community Advanced Clinical Practitioner (AHP / Nursing)
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent: Manchester Community Response Rotational Post - Crisis Response and Hospital at Home Services
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours over a 7-day service with an option of flexible shift patterns between 08:30-22:00, working hours over a 3 or 4 shift pattern)
Job ref
349-LCO-6388569*
Employer
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Trafford House
Town
Wythenshaw
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/07/2024 23:59

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Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Crisis Response / Hospital at Home

Band 8a

Job overview

Are you an ACP,  who wants to work within a community based MDT, having a passion for supporting patient care and keen to make a difference?    We are looking for an enthusiastic  Advanced Clinical Practitioner who wants to join our Community Response Team and support patients to stay at home, reducing the need for hospital admission. 

The ACP will  work on a rotational basis between our Hospital at Home and Urgent Care Crisis Response Team. The Hospital at Home service enables patients to receive safe, effective treatment at home for up to 14 days. They will provide medical assessments at home alongside our GPs, with overall care under a hospital consultant.   We receive referrals from community services, NWAS, 111, GPs and ED deflections with a focus on keeping patients safe at home where possible.  A confident communicator with strong organisational skills, you will thrive in an MDT environment and will be instrumental in supporting and developing this new service, to ensure a high-quality service for our patients. With a passion for continuous development and service improvement, you will be involved in projects and trust initiatives. You will receive regular supervision, in-service training, and support.

Main duties of the job

A confident communicator with strong organisational skills, you will thrive in a multi-disciplinary team environment and be instrumental in supporting and developing this new service.

You will also have the opportunity to work across hospital and community whilst developing key links and networks with acute and community colleagues. This will enable you to use your specialist clinical skills across all four pillars of advanced clinical practice to determine the most appropriate pathways for your patients and will include access to virtual patient monitoring for patients that would benefit from additional clinical oversight.

You will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team across acute, community and voluntary partners to ensure discharges are safe and effective and to prevent re-admission.

Using your experience and knowledge, you will support other team members to ensure we deliver a high-quality service for our patients, providing education and support as needed. 

We pride ourselves on promoting quality improvement initiatives, service development and professional and personal development and as a member of our team you will receive regular supervision, in-service training, and support to pursue post graduate education. 

You will be involved in both team projects and wider trust initiatives giving you the opportunity to form close professional relationships with a wide variety of multi-disciplinary team members.

 

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. 

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. 

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. 
 
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.   So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.  This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’.  Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.  


Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.  As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.  If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected]
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current registration with NMC, HPC and or other statutory body
  • Relevant professional health degree or equivalent experience
  • MSC in Advanced Practice
  • Independent non medical prescriber (V300)
Desirable criteria
  • Coaching/Mentoring qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial post registration experience. Leadership. experience at Band 7 or above
  • Proven experience of working as an independent practitioner
  • In-depth knowledge of recent NHS or Equivalent health care legislation, relevant to community
  • Experience of teaching and mentoring of staff across the multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate care which reflects evidence based practice.
  • Can demonstrate experience of acute disease management and crisis care
  • Leadership skills with ability to engage and deliver change through negotiation and partnership working
  • Ability to manage complexity and develop and sustain partnership working with both individuals and across organisations
  • Ability to manage complexity and develop and sustain partnership working with both individuals and across organisations
  • Able to prioritise workload, achieving a balance between clinical and other aspects of role

personal qualities

Essential criteria
  • Flexible to meet the needs of 7 day, extended hours community service
  • Access to a car for business use on a daily basis, with a full driving licence
  • Ability to manage and diffuse stressful situations

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lesley Lyons
Job title
Manchester Community Response Clinical Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07415892066
Additional information

Diane Charnley
South Manchester & Trafford Community Response Service Lead

Tel 07341733799
Email [email protected]

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