Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your career in an exciting direction?

Then we have the perfect role for you

We are looking for Advanced Clinical Practitioners to join our Out of Hospital team in South Warwickshire. The teams provides urgent care to deteriorating patients within their own home/care homes as well as supporting patients on the Virtual Ward Round.

Working closely with acute Frailty this role will be an opportunity to work in an already established integrated team.

Teams work with primary care, acute trusts, and the ambulance trust to keep patients safe, well and clinically supported at home.

The service is a 7-day service and operates from 08.00 - 20.00hrs, mostly worked as 12hrs shift pattern, but flexible and supportive approach to full and part-time opportunities.

To deliver a clinically autonomous Advanced Care Practitioner led service in the Community:
The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care demonstrated through their professional Advanced Competency framework.

To work closely with Medical and Nursing staff in both primary and secondary care, to ensure patients receive appropriate investigation, intervention and treatment with mínimal avoidable delays, whilst improving the quality of care.

To work autonomously assessing individual patient needs, initiating investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and initiating appropriate holistic, research based treatment with the development of a personalised clinical management plan, including independent prescribing.

To put the patient at the centre of all decisions, reinforcing the concept of a more streamlined patient journey, improving the quality of care.

Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

Leadership & Consultancy

Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.

Be highly visible in the clinical area.

Contribute and lead the development of the MDT/team objectives for the area of expertise.

Act as role model of standards for behaviour and professions, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures within role and workplace.

Contribute to local networks and speciality specific groups, working in partnership with other key professionals.

Analyse relevant national policy, within area of expertise, advising on impact for service, leading the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes in partnership with the MDT.

Maintain professional registration and practice through CPD.

Maintain professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with their Advanced Competency Framework.

Maintain personal standards of conduct and behaviour consistent with Trust and NMC/HCPC guidelines.

Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload and that of individuals or the service, ensuring resources are deployed appropriately.

Ensure appropriate use of resources in order to meet service/client needs.

Identify the need for change, proactively generate innovations and lead new practice and service design solutions to better meet the needs of the patient and service.

Recognise and act as advocate for patient, carer, service and organisation.

Lead change as required and ensure resolution of conflict.

Clinical Direct Care Practice

Be a champion for the care of the frail older person.

Practice autonomously and self-directed.

Hold high-level MDT working skills to support others with extending their professional roles.

Provide health promotion and prevention orientation, and comprehensively assess the patients for risk factors and early signs of illness.

Have high-level condition-specific clinical knowledge and skills.

Provide high-level assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementation programmes of evidence based care for the