Advanced Clinical Practitioner

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a highly motivated, knowledgeable and enthusiastic qualified or trainee ACP partway through training, to join our Respiratory ACP team. The team was formed 6 years ago & currently consists of 8 qualified and 4 trainee ACPs working predominantly within our Admissions Unit and Respiratory Support Unit. The team is made up of a mix of Nurses and Physiotherapists

**Main duties of the job**:
If you are an ACP or an existing trainee in another clinical area with the relevant qualifications but are looking to change your area of practice, we will be able to offer a supervised practice/training role to enable you to develop your skills, competencies and a portfolio within a new specialty. If appointed, we will support you with a period of supervision and assessment tailored specifically to individual needs and requirements.

Additionally, your clinical development will be supported and include access to a well-developed post graduate education plan. As an ACP at NUH, your development would follow a Trust-wide five year ACP plan encompassing the four pillars of advanced practice. During this period it is expected that the individual will be actively involved in developing their specialty within local, regional and national forums and networks.

Alongside clinical practice within the specialty, the successful applicant will have weekly rostered time to undertake their own continued professional development alongside service development work. They will be given the opportunity to follow personal interests and pursuits whether that is in education, teaching, research or management.

Come and develop your passion for patient care in an established ACP team in a challenging but supported and caring environment.

**Working for our organisation**:
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of busiest teaching hospitals in Europe and is nationally recognised as having an established Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) service. With more than 160 qualified and trainee ACPs across 16 specialties to date, we are now seeking committed, enthusiastic and compassionate individuals to join our team of ACPs within Respiratory Medicine at NUH to deliver the highest quality care to our patients.

NUH has an excellent national and international reputation for the quality of their patient care and for their research, education and innovation. They have strong links to the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Loughborough University.

For information about the Trust, including business plans, annual reports, and services, visit their website.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have various staff benefits. Some of the benefits of working for NUH include;
- Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our 24hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service and staff support networks
- Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- Cycle to work and travel passes
- NHS discounts
- Flexible working

Details of these and other benefits can be found on our intranet pages which you will have access when you commence with Team NUH.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
This post is open to all Nurses and AHPs that have completed, or are partway through an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, which includes Non-Medical Prescribing. You must also be able to present a portfolio demonstrating evidence of your ACP clinical competence.

You will undergo a period of supervision and assessment to ensure you are embedded correctly into our workforce and to develop their skills/portfolio within Respiratory Medicine. You will have an allocated Respiratory Consultant supervisor that has dedicated time within their job plan.

As a Respiratory ACP you will work closely alongside both Medical and Nursing teams, all working towards providing high quality research based care to patients admitted acutely. You will provide continuity in the care and treatment for our patient group. The day to day role will include ward rounds, clerking and assessing patients clinical needs, ordering investigations and implementing treatments accordingly.

Please refer to job description for more details

**Person specification**:
**Training & Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Current registration with professional body (eg NMC, HCPC)
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent MSc
- Registered independent non-medical prescriber
- Evidence of teaching, supervision and assessment skills

**Desirable criteria**:

- Mentor/assessor and/or teaching qualification
- Level 1 pleural ultrasound
- ALS provider/instructor

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Currently working as a qualified ACP
- Completed portfolio of supervised practice
- Evidence of continued professional development following MSc completion

**Desirable criteria**:

- Management and leadership experience
- Evidence of involv