A Vacancy at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work autonomously in the SDEC Clinic working as part of the SDEC multidisciplinary team.
To provide a high quality service within the SDEC clinic to all patients directly referred by GP’s, A&E, outpatient clinics and community services. To continue the nurse led DVT service within Kingston Hospital.
The practitioner will participate in the provision of specialist education, training programme and clinical leadership within the SDEC.
They will collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team to develop and review medical and nursing protocols, guidelines and pathways within emergency care.
· To undertake clinical practice at an advanced level, delivering and participating in the clinical care of patients within the SDEC.
· To provide clinical advice and leadership to the relevant nursing teams, colleagues and managers as requested.
· To take a lead in enhancing nursing and medical practice through promoting and demonstrating evidence based clinical practice.
· To act as an autonomous practitioner making independent clinical decisions, initiating investigations, technological interventions, and care/treatment using expert clinical judgement and extended scopes of practice.
· To act as a role model and expert resource including in assisting to develop nursing and advanced practice roles according to service development and evolving models of care.
· To promote practice that is dynamic, efficient, innovative and continuously improved in its relevance and responsiveness to the needs of the population.
· To contribute to the development of initiatives to promote effective patient flow and timely patient discharge, the reduction in health inequalities, patient self-management and integrated working with primary/secondary care colleagues.
Trust Culture and Values
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other.
To support this our five values are that we are all:
• Caring– we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and want.
• Safe– we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).
• Responsible– all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.
• Value each other– we all value each other’s contribution.
• Inspiring– we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jul 2024