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Community Advanced Practitioner - MCR Services and Intermediate Care
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area: Nursing or Physiotherapy or Occupational therapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends & bank holidays - extended hours 08:30 - 22:00)
Job ref: 349-LCO-7043899C*
Site: NMGH
Town: Manchester
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (pro-rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/03/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our supportive, dynamic Manchester Community Response Services and Intermediate Care Bed Base Unit in North Manchester.
You will be from either a Nursing or AHP (Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy) professional background with an MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
You must be motivated, enthusiastic and have proven experience of working as an autonomous practitioner.
Main duties of the job
Responsibility for patient care, including monitoring, diagnostics and investigations. To act as an autonomous practitioner providing clinical assessment, diagnosis where possible and treatment where appropriate for patients supported by the service within the scope of professional practice. Be responsible for the ongoing medical management and acute assessment where required, request and interpret investigations, and propose differential diagnosis. To triage and prioritize patients demonstrating a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an illness and determine an appropriate management plan. To identify changes in a patient’s condition through clinical examination and take appropriate action, to ensure the safety of the patient.
There will be an expectation that you will be flexible in your approach to work and where required to support the other MCR services with your acquired Advanced Practice skill set and rotate through those services for an agreed period of time to maintain and enhance your existing skills.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. While COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MSC in Advanced Clinical Practice
* Relevant professional health degree (nursing or AHP (Physio or OT)
* Independent non-medical prescriber (V300) (or working towards)
* Current registration with NMC, HPC
* Communication/counselling skills training
Experience
* Leadership experience at Band 7 or above
* Proven experience of working as an independent practitioner
* Experience of teaching and mentoring of staff across the multi-disciplinary team.
* Evidence of applying research in practice.
Skills & Knowledge
* Advanced clinical skills
* Able to work as an autonomous practitioner.
* Can demonstrate experience of acute disease management and crisis care
* Ability to manage complexity and develop and sustain partnership working with both individuals and across organisations
* Ability to manage high pressured situations
* Able to prioritise workload, achieving a balance between clinical and other aspects of role
* Evidence of recognised knowledge/skills in service improvement.
* Caseload management
Personal Qualities
* Self-motivated and innovative
* Assertive and confident
* Empathetic and supportive
* Flexible to meet the needs of 7 day, extended hours community service
* Access to a car for business use on a daily basis
* Ability to manage and diffuse stressful situations
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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