Job overview

Are you a Clinician with experience and skills in urgent patient care and long term conditions management?

Are you working in an advanced clinical practice role and looking for a change?

Are you seeking opportunities to enhance and develop your advance practice skills?

We are  seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team at Skylark Rehabilitation Unit  including GP’s with special interest in  frailty and  Advanced Practitioner. 

The unit consists of 30 beds based at Skylark Rehab Unit in Yate, which provides an environment where individuals who are medically stable can receive rehabilitation assessment. The multi-disciplinary team works collaboratively to achieve safe, effective care for our patients whilst they aim to recover from hospital admissions and return home.

We can offer you a supportive environment, where we are committed to your ongoing clinical development, education and further study. You will be supported in applying your experience and knowledge in an encouraging environment aiming to enhance your skills in both urgent care and other long-term conditions.

Main duties of the job

You will primarily work as part of our  medical team, responsible for the clinical care of our 30 patients.

Patients are admitted to Skylark Rehabilitation Unit for rehabilitation and recovery following an acute hospital admission. 

Throughout their admission, patients require medical intervention to:

• Continue the management of their health needs and underlying conditions.
• Optimise the patient medically to maximise their rehabilitation potential.
• Utilise the multidisciplinary workforce to enhance the patients overall health. 
• React and provide urgent medical intervention to manage new medical deterioration.

You will be responsible for the ongoing management of the patient’s current cause of admission  and other co-morbidities and supporting the wider multi-disciplinary workforce in delivering safe and effective care including rehabilitation of the patient to allow their recovery and return home.

• Assessment and clerking of new patients admitted onto the unit.
• Writing drug charts to allow safe administration of medications.
• Noting and acting upon important and outstanding medical events from the patient’s admission into secondary care.
• Working with collaboratively with colleagues at our acute partner hospitals  and  our sytsem partners.

Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas.

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits you’ll receive.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy.