Community Advanced Practitioner - MCR Services and Intermediate Care
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our supportive, dynamic Manchester Community Response Services and Intermediate Care Bed Base Unit in North Manchester.
You will be from either a Nursing or AHP (Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy) professional background with an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
You must be motivated, enthusiastic and have proven experience of working as an autonomous practitioner.
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for patient care, including monitoring, diagnostics and investigations. To act as an autonomous practitioner providing clinical assessment, diagnosis where possible and treatment where appropriate for patients supported by the service within the scope of professional practice. Be responsible for the ongoing medical management and acute assessment where required, request and interpret investigations, and propose differential diagnosis. To triage and prioritize patients demonstrating a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an illness and determine an appropriate management plan. To identify changes in a patient's condition through clinical examination and take appropriate action to ensure the safety of the patient.
There will be an expectation that you will be flexible in your approach to work and, where required, support the other MCR services with your acquired Advanced Practice skill set and rotate through those services for an agreed period of time to maintain and enhance your existing skills.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Relevant professional health degree (nursing or AHP (Physio or OT))
* Independent non-medical prescriber (V300) (or working towards)
* Current registration with NMC, HPC
* Communication/counselling skills training
Experience
* Leadership experience at Band 7 or above
* Proven experience of working as an independent practitioner
* Experience of teaching and mentoring of staff across the multi-disciplinary team.
* Evidence of applying research in practice.
Skills & Knowledge
* Advanced clinical skills
* Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
* Can demonstrate experience of acute disease management and crisis care
* Ability to manage complexity and develop and sustain partnership working with both individuals and across organisations
* Ability to manage high pressured situations
* Able to prioritise workload, achieving a balance between clinical and other aspects of role
* Evidence of recognised knowledge/skills in service improvement.
* Caseload management
Personal Qualities
* Self-motivated and innovative
* Assertive and confident
* Empathetic and supportive
* Flexible to meet the needs of 7 day, extended hours community service
* Access to a car for business use on a daily basis
* Ability to manage and diffuse stressful situations
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.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year (pro-rata)
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