Advanced Clinical Practitioner

East of England, East of England

Permanent

£50,952 to £57,349

Nurse Specialist/Team Leader
(Band 6)

Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is looking for Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work within the Division of Medicine in elderly care.

These roles are new within the Division and we are therefore looking for enthusiastic, motivated ACP's who have a desire to help change the face of elderly care, inspiring others to join an outward looking team who want to improve the care elderly patients have within our Trust .

The Elderly care team work on both the Pinderfields and Dewsbury sites and also have a virtual ward.

We have recently recruited trainee ACP's to our team and would love to have the experience of already trained ACP's within the team.

Main duties of the job

The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high quality service is delivered to patients and their carers in a timely manner. The role is multidimensional and requires the post holder to integrate and fulfil all the identified dimensions. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, all activities provide opportunities for acting as a role model for staff

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with nursing, medical and allied health professionals to assess individual patient needs, initiate investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and initiate appropriate holistic evidence based treatment and care

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will:

Manage their own caseload of patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed illness.

Undertake audit within the clinical setting to develop an evidence base

Provide formal and informal teaching, support and clinical supervision to nursing staff and junior medical staff

Support the wider multidisciplinary team, undertaking independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients to incorporate physiological, psychological and pharmacological considerations, making multifaceted complex clinical decisions regarding patient management and clinical outcomes, including, where appropriate, the discharging patients from the service when treatment is complete/optimum outcome is achieved.

About us

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

To be competent in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated and undiagnosed illnesses underpinned by extensive knowledge of a range of chronic and acute conditions.
To be competent in providing an initial clinical diagnosis and in the decision to refer to an appropriate speciality.
To be competent in the ability to discharge patients following appropriate assessment and treatment.
To be competent in the initial immediate assessment and treatment of patients with a range of life threatening presentations such as cardiac arrest and acute major illness.
If not already an Independent Prescriber, will be expected to successfully complete the programme within a timely manner, in order to continue in the role. To be undertaken and completed within 1 year of qualifying.
To be able to see, treat and refer appropriately, a broad range of patients with acute and chronic illnesses as an autonomous practitioner.
Administration of medicines, e.g. in line with NMC Guidance and Trust Policy.
Demonstrate own personal development with self-directed learning and identifying and accessing internal and external development opportunities, as per individual advanced practice portfolio.
Autonomous decision making including judgments involving complex facts or situations which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options in relation to the care/ management needs of the patients on a day to day basis within the clinical environment.
Conduct physical assessments, examinations, and investigations to identify abnormalities and make diagnoses and administer a comprehensive and appropriate level of care.
Use of advanced clinical skills and autonomous judgement to prescribe drug treatments for patients following interpretation of clinical findings through requested bloods and investigations across several broad and varied clinical fields.
Use best practice, analyse evidence based practice, use of benchmarking to inform clinical practice.
Provide detailed and transparent reports of workload, outcomes, and recommendations for future developments; demonstrated in advanced practice portfolio this should include case based discussions, multi-source feedback, etc.
Be accountable for the direct delivery and implementation of clinical care on a day to day basis across the full spectrum of illnesses and therapy management.
Provide personal care plans to patients and develop, implement and evaluate care including independently prescribed medications, monitoring therapeutic programmes and providing health education and promotion.
Be proactive in developing new ways of working, such as ACP led initiatives to increase the quality of the patient journey and the ward efficiency.
Provide health education and advice to patients.

Be a safe and competent non-Medical Prescriber-providing responsible prescribing and adapting medication therapies to meet the needs of patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

RGN Level 1 or HCPC registered AHP
Teaching Qualification
Masters level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice with completed dissertation to achieve Band 8a
Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
Recent and relevant continuous professional development

Desirable

ALS/APLS/NLS/ARNI provider

Experience

Essential

Extensive post registration clinical experience in an appropriate care setting Experience of working autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner
Evidence of audit and evidence based care
Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Teaching, mentoring and assessment skills
Management and organisational skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Highly developed oral and written communication skills with patients and the MDT; confidence to discuss sensitive, complex patient management and to liaise and negotiate with other members of the MDT
Highly developed clinical assessment, analytical and problem solving skills, including generic healthcare aspects to accurately manage complex patient presentations to an excellent professional standard
Evidence of ability to critique own practice
Ability to manage time and workload effectively and to work in a high pressure environment
Self-aware reflective practitioner able to envisage the role, and understand and manage inherent pressures of the role
Ability to demonstrate high emotional intelligence and leadership skills
Able to resolve conflict and overcome resistance
Report writing/presentation skills
IT skills ability to use Word/Excel/Powerpoint etc
Mentoring and counselling skills
Change management skills
Excellent time management and organisation skills
Ability to manage, motivate and empower others
Ability to analyse information/data and provide written reports
Ability to motivate individuals and teams
Evidence of consistently providing all aspects of care with compassion, empathy and kindness, showing sensitivity to the needs of individuals
Apply transparency, honesty and candour behaviours in your practice and challenge non- compliance with these values in others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .