Job summary
The Acute Care at Home Service, Staffordshire, is looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP) with extensive experience to undertake the role of Service Clinical Lead, working alongside the current service clinical lead. The successful candidate will be innovative and dynamic in their leadership approach.
The successful candidate will provide strategic clinical leadership, supporting the Acute Care at Home Consultants, Head of Operations and Clinical Operational Managers to develop and maintain a gold standard acute care at home service. They will provide specialised, expert advice, education, and clinical expertise in order to meet the service vision and objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide effective professional leadership and management for the Acute care at home Service Clinical teams which include the Unscheduled Care Call Centre (UCCC), Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS), Virtual Ward, Pharmacist and Quality Lead. The post holder will be a key stakeholder regarding policy, governance, service innovation and evaluation using advanced skills such as critical analysis and synthesis of information, advanced decision making, and change management.
The post holder will be the Service lead for advanced clinical practice and will be responsible for the Service development, recruitment, training, supervision and retention of the Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) within the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS). The post holder will govern the standardisation of Advanced Practice/Advanced roles within the Acute Care at Home Service determining a training programme for Advanced Practice.They will ensure service compliance with Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework (2017) to ensure a robust, supported workforce from trainee ACP to qualified and beyond focusing on the four pillars of advanced clinical practice, as supported by key stakeholders across the collaborative partnership.
**Please see full JD & PS attached
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role due to the required Skill Level and salary threshold.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Please note, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role due to the required Skill Level and salary threshold.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential
- oMsc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (eportfolio)
- oIndependent non-medical prescribing
- oAdvanced Life Support Provider
- oProficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- oEducational supervisor/mentorship qualification
- oPortfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in Advanced Clinical Practice
- oExperience of working at ACP level or above
- oLeadership and management qualification
Desirable
- oAcademic teaching qualification
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
Essential
- oA minimum of 5 years of experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- oHighly specialised advanced clinical skills & knowledge
- oAbility to present highly complex, sensitive contentious information to groups & individuals
- oExperience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
- oAbility to prioritise workload in response to service need
- oAbility to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- oAbility to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- oAble to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- oAbility to work as part of the wider team
- oBroad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi system environment
- oEvidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- oEvidence of relevant involvement in meeting the trusts clinical governance objectives
- oEvidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of the multidisciplinary team
- oAble to demonstrate a wide knowledge of the ICB and NHS long term plans
- oExcellent written and communication skills
- oAbility to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- oAbility to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- oAbility to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- oAbility to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- oAbility to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- oAbility to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oPositive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement
- oEffective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self- regulation
- oTakes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- oConsistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- oWorks with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos
- oActs to support and enable effective teamwork
- oDelivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- oThere is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
- oEmotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- oAbility to travel to and work across multiple sites
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications
Essential
- oMsc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent (eportfolio)
- oIndependent non-medical prescribing
- oAdvanced Life Support Provider
- oProficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- oEducational supervisor/mentorship qualification
- oPortfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in Advanced Clinical Practice
- oExperience of working at ACP level or above
- oLeadership and management qualification
Desirable
- oAcademic teaching qualification
Knowledge, Skills, Training & Experience
Essential
- oA minimum of 5 years of experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- oHighly specialised advanced clinical skills & knowledge
- oAbility to present highly complex, sensitive contentious information to groups & individuals
- oExperience of managing a diverse team utilising the full spectrum of HR practices
- oAbility to prioritise workload in response to service need
- oAbility to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- oAbility to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- oAble to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- oAbility to work as part of the wider team
- oBroad experience of project work and managing projects in a complex multi system environment
- oEvidence of effective people management and leadership skills
- oEvidence of relevant involvement in meeting the trusts clinical governance objectives
- oEvidence of proactive involvement in the supervision and development of the multidisciplinary team
- oAble to demonstrate a wide knowledge of the ICB and NHS long term plans
- oExcellent written and communication skills
- oAbility to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- oAbility to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- oAbility to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- oAbility to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- oAbility to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- oAbility to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oPositive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement
- oEffective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self- regulation
- oTakes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- oConsistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- oWorks with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos
- oActs to support and enable effective teamwork
- oDelivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- oThere is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration when facilitating
- oEmotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- oAbility to travel to and work across multiple sites
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
