Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for 4 Trainee advanced clinical practitioners roles within general and specialist medicine directorate at the royal Oldham hospital.

These posts are 1 in the integrated respiratory team, 1 in the integrated frailty team and 2 in the new hospital and care at home service. Please confirm your specialist interest in your supporting information.

The post holder will take a lead role in the advanced clinical assessment and treatment of a diverse and undetermined caseload of patients, who may have highly complex and/or chronic presentation. They will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated, and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. They will ensure that evidence based practice is inherent in all aspects of care and treatment and ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the clinical area, Trust and externally as appropriate. They will:

- Undertake a significant clinical caseload to an advanced professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
- Develop an extended scope of practice beyond their primary profession.
- Triage referrals either independently or with medical colleagues and make onward referrals.
- Support redesign of the flow of patient referrals from Primary care to secondary care.

**Main duties of the job**:
Advanced Clinical practitioners will work to the four pillars that underpin advanced clinical practice within their speciality area

**Clinical Practice**

Practise in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.

**Leadership and Management**:
Pro-actively initiate and develop effective relationships, fostering clarity of roles within teams, to encourage productive working. Role model the values of their organisation/place of work, demonstrating a person-centred approach to service delivery and development.

**Education**

Health and care professionals working at the level of advanced clinical practice should be able to: Critically assess and address own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of on-going professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.

**Research**

Critically engage in research activity, adhering to good research practice guidance, so that evidence-based strategies are developed and applied to enhance quality, safety, productivity,and value for money.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from Salford Royal, Royal Oldham, Rochdale infirmary and Fairfield hospitals as well as community services.

Our Care Organisations are designed to operate within a group arrangement of hospitals, community, and healthcare services. Together they manage and are responsible for the day-to-day running of their hospital and community services, ensuring the safe delivery of high-quality care at scale.

Oldham Care Organisation is responsible for delivering healthcare services at the Royal Oldham Hospital and within the community. The hospital has a full A&E department, including a specialist one for children, and offers a comprehensive range of acute and general surgical services, including vascular surgery.

We have four core values which are a focus for how our staff and volunteers work with each other to provide care for our patients. We think of our values as a set of guiding principles to refer to when making decisions and interacting with people and they help us to work together to continuously improve the organisation and ourselves.
These core values form part of the Organisations Performance Framework which regularly reviews how staff are performing.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Trust Values & Behaviours - Responsibility for upholding the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour.**

**Patient & Customer Focus**
Communicate effectively with patients, families and colleagues and proactively personalise the service, connect with patients and carers whilst adopting the ethos of Safe, Clean and Personal.

**Continuous Improvement**
Identify opportunities to reduce waste and inefficiency and look at ways of measuring and auditing i