Job Overview B8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) / B7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP). A sensational opportunity has arisen to join a well-established award-winning, innovative, and dynamic Respiratory Service. We are on a journey expanding our successful teams to enhance the Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward and have secured new funding. This final post is an opportunity not to be missed. We welcome applications from ACP, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, or a Trainee ACP to work within this dynamic and progressive team. The focus of the role is pivotal to the development of the acute respiratory virtual ward, providing expert respiratory care to patients on presentation to hospital, during their admission or in their usual place of care on the virtual ward. The role will work closely with a wider MDT and specialist teams including other virtual ward services. We are looking for someone who is highly skilled and knowledgeable in complex respiratory care and is committed to delivering and ensuring others deliver an excellent, evidence-based service. As part of the senior team, you will liaise with a variety of key stakeholders including primary care. Main duties of the job The Virtual Ward is an exciting new service offering home based care to patients who would otherwise occupy a hospital bed. The care is delivered by a specialist workforce using face to face assessments and an integrated pathway to safely support patients in their own home. The developing Virtual Ward is looking at technology to assist with virtual assessment and monitoring to support the specialist in caring for people at home. Working closely with other regional experts, you will work both independently and as part of the supportive multi-Disciplinary team; providing care that is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation. This last post will be predominantly based at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough the role will be to assess, diagnose and implement a treatment plan for patients with respiratory illness, facilitating virtual ward care where appropriate and desired. Integration into the wider respiratory team is essential, therefore, some time will be spent working from community sites and facilitating domiciliary care (approximately 4 shifts per month). The role requires flexibility in working patterns and is planned to cover a 7-day service in the future. Interviews are scheduled for the 25th November 2024. Alternative dates may be considered but please state this on your application. Working for our organisation Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties. Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Current unrestricted registration as a Nurse, Midwife or AHP MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification Registered Independent Prescriber (if relevant to role) Resuscitation/Life Support course (if appropriate to area and role) GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent qualifications) Desirable criteria Leadership qualification/course ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role) Experience Essential criteria Substantial post registration experience Experience within the speciality Evidence of ability to work & lead autonomously at advanced practice level Management of patients with complex needs Evidence of delivery of training Clinical Supervision experience Contribution to audit Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change within a variety of clinical situations Desirable criteria Management & Leadership experience Skills Essential criteria Evidence of continuing professional development Advanced Clinical Practice skills Clinical Examination skills In-depth knowledge of current practice issues Skills in critical analysis & application of research to practice Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries, to negotiate effectively and resolve complex problems Evidence of good written and oral communication skills including presentations Able to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate solutions Desirable criteria Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest Special Requirements Essential criteria Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery Desirable criteria Ability to travel to different sites within and external to the Trust (dependent on role) Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities. We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park. We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment. Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future. Apply online now