Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job Introduction
**HCRG Care Group are leading the delivery of a new Virtual Ward, a new model of care to prevent avoidable admission to hospital**

We are looking an **Advanced Clinical Practitioner **(Nurse or AHP) to join us in a fantastic opportunity to be part of a new venture, developing innovative care pathways and using remote technology to provide acute care at home.

You will be based in our Peasedown St John location but work with the integrated community health & care services and people’s homes. Service hours run from 8am-8pm, 7 days a week.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner you will take a lead in the advanced assessment, management and treatment of patients in community settings with particular focus on those referred from the 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) initially and then develop wider referral pathways.

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary, acute and social care interfaces in BaNES. You will be responsible for coordinating the provision of specialist interventions to meet the urgent health care needs of people who would have traditionally been hospitalised or those requiring facilitated timely discharge from emergency departments.

Main Responsibilities
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will report to the Virtual Ward Clinical Lead and into the Head of Operations. The team will consist of 18 full-time equivalent colleagues in a combination of advanced practice clinical roles and non-registered support roles.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:

- Supervision, support, professional development, appraisals, rota management to ensure delivery of an effective and progressive service.
- Delivering evidence based advanced clinical practice skills to ensure the appropriate management of patient’s needs.
- Using skills of assessment, diagnosis, interpretation of tests, forward planning of care & treatment.
- Timely recognition of deteriorating patients, appropriate response, escalation & documentation.
- Routine writing of drug charts to prescribe medication for patients whilst in the Virtual Ward and in preparation for discharge.
- Participate in, initiate, and deliver audit & research to identify current practice, drive continuous improvement & contribute to the development of new knowledge, theory & practice to benefit patients & colleagues.
- Identifying poor practice & supporting improvement opportunities as part of a Just Culture based on reflection, learning & improvement through SBAR completion, thematic review.

**For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached Job Description.**
- Be Registered with the NMC or HCPC educated to degree level
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
- Registered current Non Medical Precsriber qualification
- Significant previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
- Proven significant experience in leading and managing a team
- Masters degree
- Clean driving licence and access to a car

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Package Description
As an **Advanced Clinical Practitioner**, you’ll be part of our valued team at Peasedown St John.

You will feel valued as an **Advanced Clinical Practitioner** within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- £48,526 - £54,619 (Band 8a AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement id