Advanced Clinical Practitioner

A rare and exciting opportunity has a risen with a vacancy within a growing team of Advanced Clinical Practitioner's within Acute Medicine at North Bristol NHS Trust.

Practitioners will join a highly motivated and skilled multi-professional team working across both the Acute Medical Unit and SDEC unit. Within the two units we admit approximately 70 patients a day direct from GPs, the Emergency Department and Ambulance service.

Our current working pattern is over 7 days working 8am until 8:30pm inclusive of bank holidays.

The ACP will assess and treat varied clinical cases, utilising advanced skills to assess the patient with a differentiated or undifferentiated clinical diagnosis. You will work autonomously to assess, diagnose, treat, discharge and refer patients for ongoing specialist care. Practitioners will be pivotal in developing Advanced practice within acute medicine alongside the lead ACP and Consultant lead.

The successful applicant will be expected to fulfil all four pillars of advanced practice and support projects to assist the continued transformation work within Acute Medicine, utilising individual leadership and teaching skills.

Practitioners require excellent communication and organisational skills, demonstrating assertiveness and emotional resilience in conjunction with a passion and enthusiasm for working in Acute Medicine.

The Acute Medicine ACP team are an approachable, highly motivated and well-respected team within the trust. We are supported by an expert team of Acute Physicians, who provide supervision, teaching and constructive feedback. The unit's governance structure allows ACPs to practice autonomously within their capabilities and governing body regulations. ACPs are also advocated within the trust through the advanced practice lead, non-medical prescribing teaching, and various advance practice forums and networking groups.

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Clinical
- Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients within Acute Medicine
- Provide skilled assessment of patients including history taking, physical assessment, requesting, interpreting, and acting on appropriate tests and investigations in a timely manner.
- Use expert and specialised clinical and theoretical knowledge in order to safely and appropriately assess and diagnose patients in their care.
- Act autonomously within evidenced based guidelines to plan and implement individualised management plans. Formulate clinical decisions and often complex treatment plans to manage illness and/or injury.
- Demonstrate competence, knowledge and skills in a wide range of practical procedures
- Prescribe as an Independent Prescriber, assessing and prescribing appropriate medication within appropriate specialty guidelines using the British National formulary
- To delegate/refer to other practitioners when this will improve health outcomes or when risk and needs are beyond own competence and scope of practice.
- Accept referrals from other disciplines and provide specialist advice and support to colleagues within the organisation.

Personal & Professional
- Be responsible for maintaining current registration with appropriate professional bodies and perform within any Professional Code and relevant Guidelines for Practice.
- Keep up-to-date with current research and audit findings and base all clinical assessment and management decisions on credible high quality evidence
- Promote integrated working practice between clinical areas and interdisciplinary teams in order to ensure safe patient care.
- Contribute to the development of the Advanced Practitioner role both within the Directorate and Trust wide.
- Maintain own professional portfolio in-line with both local and national competency frameworks.

Service Development
- To actively take part in planning, developing and improving services in order to be responsive to patient needs as well as Directorate, Trust and National Health Service needs.
- Participate in implementing national standards and frameworks at a local level within the speciality.
- To be responsible for identifying and addressing his/her own professional, training and development needs, ensuring these training and development needs are aligned to speciality service developments.

Education & Train