Main area: Advance Clinical Practitioner Grade Band 8a
Contract: 1 year (Fixed Term Contract 1 Year)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mixed shift pattern)
Job ref: 277-6822470-CPH
Site: Woolwich Centre
Town: Woolwich
Salary: £59,490 - £66,239 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Oxleas Joint Emergency Team / Urgent Community Response Team has one new 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post available. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team while providing leadership and line management to junior colleagues within the integrated multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients in the community setting and the ability to lead a community team.
We welcome dynamic applicants from adult Nursing and AHP backgrounds. This is an exciting opportunity to join and further shape Greenwich's Urgent Community Response service.
Main duties of the job
The Directorate is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an innovative Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as a member of the Urgent Community Response team to support patients experiencing crisis ill health. The team offers wider admission avoidance strategies.
The successful applicant will be working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner supporting the Urgent Community Response pathways to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and contribute to effective admission avoidance. The role incorporates high-level advanced clinical assessment skills and the use of the non-medical prescribing qualification to medically support complex patients within the community, presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions.
You will be required to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process; identify gaps within the service and lead with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies. You will be actively involved in research and responsible for leading the implementation of evidence-based clinical changes as well as facilitating a positive team culture through effective clinical leadership, providing a clinical resource to colleagues as required and delivering training and education to the team and wider services to improve standards of service delivery.
Qualifications
* Hold current professional registration with respective professional body NMC (Adult Registration) / HCPC
* MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent
* Accredited autonomous practitioner qualification Master’s/DiP in advanced practice or equivalent
* Non-medical Prescribing V300 course
* Portfolio of evidence for advanced clinical practice consolidation
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Evidence of education/training in specialist area (i.e. therapies, interventions, service-specialism)
Experience and Knowledge
* Minimum 6 years’ experience as HCP
* Experience working within healthcare services at an advanced level of practice minimum of 1 year’s experience as ACP or equivalent.
* Experience of service/practice development
* Experience in a range of care settings: Primary, Secondary Care, Emergency Departments
* Advanced level understanding of specialist-specific disorders and their corresponding evidence-based interventions
* Applied knowledge of safeguarding, inclusion, and equality
* Experience of leading research/quality improvement initiatives, developing and evaluating new ways of working
* Experience of leading a team
* Experience of writing for publication and/or presenting to professionals and the public
* Extensive experience of leading the delivery of care for a diverse population
Skills and Abilities
* Advanced autonomous clinical assessment
* Critical decision-making skills/Advanced problem-solving skills
* Competence in requesting and interpretation of required investigations
* Advanced level written and verbal communication skills
* Experience of appraisals
* Full driving license with access to a car
* Clinical Audit and interest in research
* Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
* Self-motivated towards own practice and development
* Confident and competent in approach to practice
* Evidence of radiology requesting
Other Requirements
* Willingness/ability to work flexibly (time and location)
* Willingness to undertake further training and education relevant to practice and service need
* Supportive, friendly, adaptable, and patient-focused
* Effective interpersonal skills with colleagues, patients, and the public
* Mental Effort: Expected to concentrate for long periods of time when assessing patients; need to have constant vigilance and awareness of the client and environment.
* Ability to work flexibly to deal with interruption regarding service issues.
* Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships
* Demonstrate commitment to support national and Trust strategies and objectives for clinical care and advanced clinical practice
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.
If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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