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:
1. Provide clinical expertise for a wide array of acute injuries and illnesses.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Ability to prescribe remotely, offering advice and guidance, request and interpret appropriate investigations, and provide adequate safety netting advice to professionals and patients.
5. 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 ongoing 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Provide clinical expertise for a wide array of acute injuries and illnesses.
2. Provide senior support to the SPoA triage teams in determining the correct route through which patients can access urgent care.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Draw on all 4 pillars of advanced practice in delivering SPoA and alternating routing model of care.
6. Ability to prescribe remotely, offering advice and guidance, request and interpret appropriate investigations, and provide adequate safety netting advice to professionals and patients.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* At least 2 years experience at Band 6 level practice Ability to manage differentiated and undifferentiated clinical presentations in all areas Knowledge to request and interpret appropriate investigations within accepted policies and practice.
Desirable
* Experience in telemedicine Experience of working across boundaries of acute and community-based care.
Qualifications
Essential
* NMC or HCPC current registration Recognised Health Assessment Module Non-Medical Prescribing qualification Currently ILS/ALS provider
Desirable
* Working towards MSc Advanced Practice (full MSc covering 4 pillars Advanced Practice) Mentoring Teaching Minor Injuries Module Minor Illness Module.
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.
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