Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)
The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams. They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations.
Main duties of the job
- Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct. The postholder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework.
- Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).
- Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.
- Participate and lead team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
- Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.
- Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode. Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures.
Job responsibilities
Key Relationships
- Staff within the professional group
- Clinical Team Leaders
- Service Managers
- Heads of Service/General Managers
- Clinical and Divisional Directors
- GPs
- Local Authority partners
- Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies
- Care Home Managers
- Social Care
Qualifications/Training
- Registered Nurse Level 1/ AHP, NMC or HCPC registered
- Disease specific post graduate or accredited qualification
- Masters in advanced practice qualification (MSc)
- Mentor/Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent.
- Evidence of recent continuing professional development
- Leadership course
- Understanding the complex and dynamic needs of a multi-cultural socially diverse community
- Knowledge of safeguarding principles (adults and children)
Experience
- Extensive relevant up to date clinical experience
- Evidence of leading service development. Participation/experience of mentoring colleagues and students
- Evidence of collaborative working within a multi-professional environment
- Evidence of supporting others in a clinical environment
- Experience of trainee supervision & teaching
- Evidence of up-to-date based knowledge & skills, particularly in long-term conditions & first contact
Skills/Knowledge
- Evidence of leading service development. Participation/experience of mentoring colleagues and students
- Knowledge of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and well- being of patients with complex, long-term conditions and unscheduled care
- Advanced clinical practice skills
- Understanding the complex and dynamic needs of a multi-cultural socially diverse community
- Knowledge of safeguarding principles (adults and children)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum (pro rata)
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