Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified, enthusiastic and dynamic Advanced Clinical Practitioner, to join our well-established community MDT within the @Home Service, based at Dewi Sant Health Park.

We welcome applications from those individuals in receipt of a Level 7 education ( MSc ) relevant to area of practice or equivalent experience. Also in receipt of an independent prescribing qualification.

The post holder will work closely with the team and provide effective leadership and management to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, well led, responsive, quality patient care.

Alongside this they will need to be able to demonstrate the ability tocontribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures within their sphere of responsibility and where appropriate, will actively initiate and partake in training and education programmes, research, clinical audit and service evaluation,demonstrating their ability to practice autonomously across all four pillars of advanced practice.

You should be passionate about improving the patient experience and quality of clinical outcomes and possess good organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the holistic assessment of care needs and development implementation and evaluation of evidence based programmes of care. The role will specifically focus on expert clinical practice, education skills.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, the post holder will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy in relation to patients nursing needs and to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.

The post holder will assist the Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the clinical assessment of patients who have a complex and undetermined presentation working alongside medical and GP colleagues to maintain patients in a community setting and avoid hospital admissions and facilitate discharges.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will be expected to work with Health and Social Care colleagues in a number of key areas which include reablement , avoidance of hospital admission and facilitation of early discharge.

Will be expected to have a full understanding of the relevant care pathways and be able to work with Health and Social Care staff on work streams arising out of the transition of services currently being evolved

The post holder will be expected to act on their own initiative to differentiate appropriately between those issues which need to be referred to others for a decision from the issues upon which the post holder can exercise appropriate decision making. To maintain the NMC Code of Conduct.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.