Job summary
Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) / Band 7 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 recruiting for 2 posts.
We are on a journey expanding our successful teams to enhance the Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward and have secured new funding.
This post is an opportunity not to be missed.
We welcome applications from Respiratory ACP's or an ACP in their final year 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 post will be predominantly based atWexham 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.
About us
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.
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Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- 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
- Leadership qualification/course
- ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role)
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Management & Leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest
Special Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery
- Ability to work weekends
- Full driving licence and access to a car for domiciliary work
Desirable
- Ability to travel to different sites within and external to the Trust (dependent on role)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- Leadership qualification/course
- ALS/ ATLS/ ETC/ APLS/ EPALS (as relevant to role)
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Management & Leadership experience
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Ability and initiative to develop specialist areas of interest
Special Requirements
Essential
- Flexible approach to shift patterns and service delivery
- Ability to work weekends
- Full driving licence and access to a car for domiciliary work
Desirable
- Ability to travel to different sites within and external to the Trust (dependent on role)
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
