Job summary
We have an exciting opportunities for an ACP to join our team in beautiful Herefordshire, within our Integrated Care Division,
Working patterns will be between 8am and 8pm over 7 days per week. You will be responsible for managing patients in their own homes to help avoid hospital admission.
Band 6-8a dependant on experience
Main duties of the job
To practice as highly specialist clinician for patients with complex health conditions and/or at risk of imminent hospital admission. To offer holistic assessment and treatment for patients in their own home (whenever appropriate) to maximise health and wellbeing and minimise reliance on in-patient services and primary care physicians.
We support the daily function of the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards services, offering clinical support on triage of referrals and clinical assessments to our colleagues as required.
We manage a dynamic caseload of patients with complex chronic conditions for proactive case management. This work aims to build an ethos of empowerment for our patients and assist them in managing their own healthcare with individualised support.
We work closely as a team to ensure the multiple facets of our role can be undertaken with a supportive and flexible dynamic and to maintain highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills.
Our dynamic team strive for excellence in all areas of work across the 4 pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, sharing an ethos of lifelong learning, holistic patient care, team working and professionalism.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.
Date posted
21 June 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
Depending on experience Dependant on experience, including Level 7 study on ACP MSc.
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
229-IC-6340334
Job locations
Leominster Community Hospital OR Nelson House, Hereford
Herefordshire
HR4 0DG
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Leominster Community Hospital OR Nelson House, Hereford
Herefordshire
HR4 0DG
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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