The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and agreed acceptance limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and excellence. The Advanced Practitioner will need to prioritise and triage the needs of the patients, accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner. The post holder will use skills, knowledge and competencies as a qualified Advanced Practitioner in order to be responsible and accountable for managing patient case loads for treatments, referral admission and discharging patients as appropriate. The post holder will lead the EHCH Team providing ward rounds, treatments, and assessments within care and residential homes with the overall aim of reducing unnecessary Hospital admissions and conveyances. This will include proactive LTC management through meetings the needs of residents via excellent service delivery, building strong community relationships and partnership working. The right candidate will have an understanding of Palliative and end of life care and how it affects us all, at all ages. With a growing local older population, more people are expected to enter care and die at an older age and the expectancy as part of the EHCH DES services that we are able to plan and consider peoples wishes and preferences for their end-of-life care and treatment. This will be an essential part of the services delivery for those patients deemed to be entering the final 12 months of life expectancy and this focus will compliment the 6 NHSE ambitions to improve EOL palliative Care Treatments across the health care sector meeting the challenges that lie ahead.