Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Band 8a
Permanent, full time - 37.5 hours per week
**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**
**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.
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.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind
We’re Fair
We Listen
We Care
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 closel