Clinical Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8b
Main area: Clinical Lead ACP
Grade: Band 8b
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 205-6088881-E
Site: Smithfield 1
Town: Stoke on Trent
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/10/2024 23:59
The Acute Care at Home Service, Staffordshire, is looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP) with extensive experience to undertake the role of Service Clinical Lead, working alongside the current service clinical lead. The successful candidate will be innovative and dynamic in their leadership approach.
The successful candidate will provide strategic clinical leadership, supporting the Acute Care at Home Consultants, Head of Operations and Clinical Operational Managers to develop and maintain a gold standard acute care at home service. They will provide specialised, expert advice, education, and clinical expertise in order to meet the service vision and objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide effective professional leadership and management for the Acute care at home Service Clinical teams which include the Unscheduled Care Call Centre (UCCC), Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS), Virtual Ward, Pharmacist and Quality Lead. The post holder will be a key stakeholder regarding policy, governance, service innovation and evaluation using advanced skills such as critical analysis and synthesis of information, advanced decision making, and change management.
The post holder will be the Service lead for advanced clinical practice and will be responsible for the Service development, recruitment, training, supervision and retention of the Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) within the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS). The post holder will govern the standardisation of Advanced Practice/Advanced roles within the Acute Care at Home Service determining a training programme for Advanced Practice. They will ensure service compliance with Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework (2017) to ensure a robust, supported workforce from trainee ACP to qualified and beyond focusing on the four pillars of advanced clinical practice, as supported by key stakeholders across the collaborative partnership.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients and carers, that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role due to the required Skill Level and salary threshold.
Person specification
Essential Qualifications
* Msc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (eportfolio)
* Independent non-medical prescribing
* Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint
* Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Experience of working at ACP level or above
* Leadership and management qualification
* Academic teaching qualification
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
* A minimum of 5 years of experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner
* Highly specialised advanced clinical skills & knowledge
* Ability to present highly complex, sensitive contentious information to groups & individuals
* Experience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
* Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
* Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
* Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
* Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
* Ability to work as part of the wider team
* Broad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi-system environment
* Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
* Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust's clinical governance objectives
* Evidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of the multidisciplinary team
* Able to demonstrate a wide knowledge of the ICB and NHS long-term plans
* Excellent written and communication skills
* Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
* Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
* Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
* Ability to develop medium and long-term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
* Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
* Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Personal Qualities
* Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement
* Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self-regulation
* Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agreed objectives
* Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach
* Works with patients and people at the fore – operates to a customer service ethos
* Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
* Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
* There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
* Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
* Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
Important information about your application
* All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
* References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
* We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
* Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Lesley Roberts
Job title: Head of Operations
Email address: Lesley.roberts2@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 03001230983
Additional information:
* For any further information please contact Lesley Roberts, Head of Operations for Acute Care at Home.
0300 123 0983
Lesley.roberts2@uhnm.nhs.uk
Lesleys.stanway@mpft.nhs.uk
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