Advanced Practitioner

Unplanned Service - Advanced Practitioner (Band-8a) Are you an Advanced Practitioner looking for an opportunity to work within a dynamic community team? The role includes providing enhanced nursing, and social and clinical assessment of housebound patients with escalating complex needs, within a robust MDT structure. BDCT covers Bradford and Airedale localities. The service runs seven-days-a-week, between the hours of 08.00 - 18.00. The primary function of the role is to maximise the patient’s health, clinically assess and treat patients in defined groups thereby reducing unnecessary admissions to acute services, facilitating the delivery of effective, co-ordinated, and timely high-quality care to patients. Unplanned services are committed to supporting your continued professional development, and we will support you in your ongoing career aspirations. If this is you, we’d love to hear from you. Closing Date - 23rd March 2025 As a member of the community unplanned team working as an advanced practitioner(AP) in the community setting. Work collaboratively in providing flexible, dynamic and innovative care, responsive to unplanned health needs, focusing on those service users who present with complex needs, co-morbidities and long-term conditions. To proactively manage a time limited episode of care of very high intensity users of services, for treatment and onward referral to enable the patient to maintain independence, avoid unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge in coloration with Virtual ward pathways. To seek and develop innovative and pioneering ways of working, challenging decisions made by health care professionals. To establish close working relationships with staff in primary, secondary, intermediate care, social care and voluntary organisations. **Everything we do is underpinned by our core values**: - We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including: Increase mileage rates for > 3500 A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities Plus many more. We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities. Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role. Right to Work in the UK Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status. Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust’s eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period. As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.