Job Overview
Are you a qualified ANP/ACP or currently in the final stages of an ANP/ACP training pathway looking for a new challenge?
Do you want to work in services where we are challenging the traditional flow of patients through the system and finding new ways of giving inpatient treatment on an outpatient basis? If so then this new opportunity may be for you.
We are advertising for a rotational post within Acute Medicine based at Frimley Park Hospital, Camberley which will give the successful post holder ability to work as part of the Acute Take team, within our Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit and our Virtual Ward (dependent on experience).
With a key focus on expanding and improving our service we have ongoing links with the national and regional NHSE SDEC team, and our services have been the subject of various case studies and pilots for national work. We have a focus on increasing access from 999/111/Primary Care and are keen to continue to expand and deliver cutting edge and be at the forefront of this exciting and expanding speciality.
We are also one of the first trusts to offer a virtual ward within acute medicine to give further alternatives to admission and are currently aiming to expand this team further in the coming months with us managing over 3500 patients through this service in its first 2 years.
Main duties of the job
This is primarily a clinical role in assessment, diagnosis and management of patients within the Acute Medicine but candidates will also be expected to work across the other pillars of advanced practice.
We have highly functioning Acute Medicine SDEC units on both our Frimley Park and Wexham Park sites which aim to provide rapid assessment and decision making, urgent investigations and treatment to avoid unnecessary admissions and improve the patient pathway for over 40% of the acute medical take.
We also have ACP roles within our Acute Take team and our UEC Virtual Ward and so are now able to offer rotation through these three areas (dependent on experience) to give higher job variability and experience in a multitude of environments.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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
1. Current unrestricted registration as a Nurse, Midwife or AHP
2. MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent qualification
3. Teaching and assessing/mentorship qualification
4. Registered Independent Prescriber (if relevant to role)
5. Resuscitation/Life Support course (if appropriate to area and role)
6. GCSE English and Mathematics at grade C or above (or equivalent qualifications)
Desirable criteria
1. Leadership qualification/course
2. ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role)
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Substantial post registration experience
2. Experience within the speciality
3. Evidence of ability to work & lead autonomously at advanced practice level
4. Management of patients with complex needs
5. Evidence of delivery of training
6. Clinical Supervision experience
7. Contribution to audit
8. Ability to initiate, sustain and evaluate change within a variety of clinical situations
Desirable criteria
1. Management & Leadership experience
Skills
Essential criteria
1. Evidence of continuing professional development
2. Advanced Clinical Practice skills
3. Clinical Examination skills
4. In-depth knowledge of current practice issues
5. Skills in critical analysis & application of research to practice
6. Ability to work across professional and organisational boundaries, to negotiate effectively and resolve complex problems
7. Evidence of good written and oral communication skills including presentations
8. Able to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate solutions
Desirable criteria
1. Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
1. Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery
Desirable criteria
1. 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.
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