Site: Urgent Community Response, 1st Floor Central Court, Town: Orpington
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/11/2024 23:59
Interview date: 14/11/2024
Bromley Healthcare, a community interest company, delivers a diverse range of services encompassing community nursing (e.g., district nursing, health visiting, specialist nursing) and therapy services catering to individuals across all age groups. Stemming from the community provider unit of NHS Bromley, we boast extensive experience in serving the Bromley populace over many years.
Working at Bromley Healthcare offers a fulfilling experience. Our distinctive service delivery approach and commitment to hearing every employee's voice ensure a gratifying career journey. As a Social Enterprise, we embrace an innovative approach to healthcare delivery, combining the traditional strengths of the NHS, such as robust training and development opportunities, with the flexibility to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.
Job overview
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Band 7
Full-time - 37.5 hours per week
We are looking for a proactive Advanced Clinical Practitioner who wants to share their skills within our team. The post is based within the Urgent Community Response Team. This service provides a multi-disciplinary urgent assessment and crisis intervention service within a 2 hour response, and at times a 2-4 hr response to patients in the community with the aim of preventing hospital admission and supporting with early discharge from hospital, operating 7 days per week 8am to 8pm.
The post holder is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, acting within their professional boundaries. The post-holder will be expected to be working towards becoming a non-medical prescriber with good community experience and skilled to see patients independently, making autonomous decisions in the clinical and diagnostic assessment of patients with potentially complex health and social care needs to support keeping them in the community and reduce hospital admissions / A&E attendance and to develop a comprehensive plan of care.
Main duties of the job
* To respond to urgent referrals into the service from GP/111/Acute trust/Hospics and community providers for patients to be seen at home, who have deteriorated below baseline due to illness or injury and will require additional clinical support, medication prescribed and care plans to prevent attendance to A&E or hospital admission.
* To develop high level skills in clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning to proactively manage high acuity users of health and social care services, with multiple co-morbidities and pharmacy, social, medical and nursing needs and who are at risk of hospital admission.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered with appropriate professional body (NMC, HCPC)
* Registered non-medical prescriber (if professionally appropriate)
* Advanced clinical assessment or ECAS module completed
* Autonomous practice and clinical decision making
* Willing to work towards completing full ACP MSc, portfolio or credentialing
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Master level Award covering and assessing all 4 pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research) or Credentialing equivalent ALNP D Model
Skills
* Able to function as an experienced nurse/advanced clinical practitioner with safe clinical skills
* Able to demonstrate advanced skills for assessing patient conditions, and taking appropriate action in the management planning
* Evidence of the ability to devise/coordinate plans of care working autonomously and collaboratively
* Evidence of the ability to maintain and monitor high standards of care.
* Advance communication skills, with staff, clients other agencies
* Understanding of the principles of clinical governance, particularly in relation to their service area.
* Evidence of professional development and knowledge.
* UK drivers license with clean current licence & access to a vehicle for work purposes
* Intravenous and cannulation skills.
* IVAB therapy administration and management
Experience
* Enthusiastic and effective team member with good person and organisational skill
* Evidence of experience in practicing at an advanced level with clinical advanced assessment skills
* Demonstrate good written and verbal communication skills
* Evidence of experience in autonomously managing practice at an advanced level
* Extensive clinical experience and skills using evidence based practice
* Experience in working across acute and community care settings.
We are dedicated to caring for our service users and their loved ones, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we strongly encourage all colleagues to avail themselves of the Coronavirus vaccination.
At Bromley Healthcare, we are fully committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured, and celebrated. Discrimination of any protected characteristic is not tolerated. Diversity and inclusion are key components of our People Strategy, as an equal opportunities employer, we are particularly eager to enhance Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.
We welcome applicants with a disability. We are able to support reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process, please let us know if you require any.
We eagerly anticipate welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare. Please note that all offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six-month probationary period.
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