Trainee Frailty Advanced Clinical Practitioner

3 months ago

Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Bedford Hospital is looking to recruit a Trainee Frailty Advanced Clini cal Practitioner into their Frailty service on a years secondment. This role, would be a opportunity for an individual who is already on the Advanced Clinical Practice MSc Pathway, but is looking for an opportunity to gain clinical experience and supervision on acute frailty, to further their Clinical skills ad experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team who provide expertise in frailty as required by the Same Day Emergency Care programme for the acute setting of A&E and the assessment areas of the Trust.

This role follows the Apprenticeship Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc course and once completed the post holder will advance onto an 8A ACP position within the Frailty team.

This post will develop to a Band 8a upon completion of a master’s in advanced clinical Practice, and completion of an Independent Non-Medical prescribing qualification, incorporating the competence of autonomous decision making.

Please see attached Job Description.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:
Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients recognised as frail, working within Gold Standards, and performing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Priorities health needs and intervenes appropriately.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.

To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate. When patients are recognised as being incapacitated to make decisions about their own health needs, to be able to make decisions in the patient’s best interest to enhance their care and well-being.

Take responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.

Can identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret the results.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification
- **Main Duties and Responsibilities**:
Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients recognised as frail, working within Gold Standards, and performing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Priorities health needs and intervenes appropriately.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken to practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within Trust policies and the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct (2008) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.

To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose, and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation, and management as appropriate. When patients are recognised as being incapacitated to make decisions about their own health needs, to be able to make decisions in the patient’s best interest to enhance their care and well-being.

Take responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.

Can identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret the results.

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