Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Job Description
Job summary
Are you an aspiring clinical expert in your field? If so, we have an exciting career opportunity for you. We are recruiting a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
This role offers an innovative opportunity for a suitably experienced clinician, ideally on an ACP training programme, possessing Health Assessment and Non-Medical Prescribing module competence to work in a dynamic and evolving new model of care across an Integrated Single Point of Access (SPoA) and rotation predominately through Medical Same Day Emergency Care (MSDEC) and alternative routing services in Worcestershire.
Working alongside an Interface Consultant, this role provides the opportunity to develop skills in urgent care management and delivery of alternative routing for patients with urgent care needs within the new models of working approach.
We are seeking capable, flexible clinicians who enjoy working collaboratively across traditional boundaries, the challenge of urgent care, and would like to be part of an evolutionary care service.
You must be highly motivated to deliver patient-centred, contemporary, value-added healthcare in innovative ways. Worcestershire teams are dynamic and friendly.
Main duties of the job
SPoA:
Provide clinical expertise for a wide array of acute injuries and illnesses
Alongside the Interface Consultant and ACPs provide inclusive, collaborative senior trusted assessor level clinical conversations with professionals and patients, routing appropriate care pathways across the primary, community and secondary interface, including primary care colleagues, support of ambulance service Call before Convey and streaming services from a variety of sources
Care co-ordination, collaboration, right time, right place model, supporting the NHS Closer to Home agenda, utilizing the full breadth and depth of the system Directory of Services available in avoiding unnecessary ambulance conveyance, unnecessary ED and acute attendances and admissions, within an integrated system approach
Ability to prescribe remotely, offering advice and guidance, request and interpret appropriate investigations, and provide adequate safety netting advice to professionals and patients
Providing clinical/technical care, which contributes to the diagnosis, specialist care and treatment plans for these highly complex patients. In the absence of medical staff and within predetermined parameters, using advanced clinical-reasoning skills the post holder will initiate treatment plans and support to ensure the on-going safety of the patient.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
Key Duties:
SPoA:
Provide clinical expertise for a wide array of acute injuries and illnesses
Provide senior support to the SPoA triage teams in determining the correct route through which patients can access urgent care
Alongside the Interface Consultant and ACPs provide inclusive, collaborative senior trusted assessor level clinical conversations with professionals and patients, routing appropriate care pathways across the primary, community and secondary interface, including primary care colleagues, support of ambulance service Call before Convey and streaming services from a variety of sources
Care co-ordination, collaboration, right time, right place model, supporting the NHS Closer to Home agenda, utilizing the full breadth and depth of the system Directory of Services available in avoiding unnecessary ambulance conveyance, unnecessary ED and acute attendances and admissions, within an integrated system approach
Draw on all 4 pillars of advanced practice in delivering SPoA and alternating routing model of care.
Ability to prescribe remotely, offering advice and guidance, request and interpret appropriate investigations, and provide adequate safety netting advice to professionals and patients
Clinical:
Assess and prioritise patients undergoing treatment
Undertake under supervision holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patients care needs. Once completed Health assessment and non- medical prescribing to undertake autonomous holistic assessments from beginning to end of the patients journey.
Providing clinical/technical care, which contributes to the diagnosis, specialist care and treatment plans for these highly complex patients. In the absence of medical staff and within predetermined parameters, using advanced clinical-reasoning skills the post holder will initiate treatment plans and support to ensure the on-going safety of the patient
Demonstrate continual evaluation of practice within the defined specialist area and take responsibility for making agreed changes where appropriate
Request and arrange necessary investigations including X-rays, ultrasound scans, VQ scans, endoscopy, spirometry, echocardiography, and exercise tolerance tests, interpreting and reporting findings to appropriate clinicians
Discuss and agree assessment outcomes with patients, carers and other healthcare professionals, to enable them to make informed decisions regarding treatment
Ensure that accurate, essential and appropriate written and verbal information is relayed to staff, ensuring adequate facilities are in place to maintain safety in the environment, ensuring effective management of this group of patients
Ensure that patients are referred to appropriate practitioner when needs and risks are not within own scope of practice. Ensure dignity, privacy, and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times
Professional:
Act as a role model by demonstrating high standards of holistic care
Ensure that documentation is of a very high standard, adhering to local and national guidelines
Take on a pivotal role in the development and promotion of a care philosophy, ensuring clinical practice is reflective of this ideology
Take key responsibility for supporting medical colleagues, nursing colleagues and the matron for services
Maintain a current and up-to-date personal professional profile in accordance with guidelines
Maintain competency
Ensure that all aspects of clinical practice are research and evidence based
Managerial/Leadership:
Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice, acting on results, thereby ensuring safe delivery of care
Monitor and develop quality initiatives in line with local and national requirements and guidelines; take a lead role in the facilitation of such initiatives
Identify the skills set and terms of reference required of the Advanced Nurse Practitioner role, ensuring they reflect the individual, holistic needs of patients undergoing care
Work pro-actively in managing change in own speciality, to improve practice and health outcomes
Attend relevant meetings regularly to influence and make decisions regarding service delivery provision and further development of the service
Manage own diary and workload
Act in such a way as to be a credible, effective leader, demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis
Educational:
Support the development of protocols for the management of patients
Contribute to and participate in the Organisation Education Strategy
Promote the service offered through formal and ...
