Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Hospital at Home Virtual Ward (VW) service within Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough.

Are you a clinical expert who puts the clinical and holistic needs of our patients first to ensure safe, high quality and effective care? Are you a passionate Advanced Clinical Practitioner with expert knowledge of urgent community services, virtual wards or same day emergency care services? Would you like to work in advancing services in the community?

We are looking for experienced and highly skilled clinicians to develop and work within the advancing services of UCR and VW. The post holder will be working autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within the UCR and Hospital at Home VW service in Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough.

Please note consideration will be made for applicants who do not meet the full criteria of the role, who have considerable experience, who already hold level 7 Non-Medical Prescribing and level 7 Advanced Physical Assessment Skills Qualification.

This would be a band 7 clinical practitioner post with the transfer to band 8a ACP role on completion of the full qualification under annex 21 (please view both job descriptions and person specifications)

Main duties of the job

This role will be at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment within the community setting. Working effectively across all four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017).

The post holder will be able to evidence all four pillars of the advanced clinical practice framework and benchmark to advanced clinical practice levels across all four pillars.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Consultants/ GP with specialist interest in Frailty with day-to-day clinical activity (to be determined according to need of specialist area).

Providing in-patient, same day emergency care, outpatient and community areas with consistent high quality clinical care, supporting trust management teams with on-going clinical care provision and assist with effective patient flow through the trust.

You will be/have:

Registered healthcare practitioner
Independent non-medical prescribing (where legally permitted)
Portfolio demonstrating continued professional development and ongoing assessments
ILS/ALS provider
Formal research module completed at level 7 (master's level).

About us

The current UCR and Hospital at Home have a well-established workforce of Clinical Practitioners, Community UCR Sisters, Senior Occupational Therapists, Senior Physiotherapists, Community Staff Nurses and Health Care Support workers who provide a wraparound service for our patients who acutely deteriorate in the community.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust Values and Behaviourso Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skillso Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete these four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7

Date posted

20 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £57,349 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

328-FCS-6135159

Job locations

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

TS10 4NW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience in speciality at a Senior Level (Band 7 & 8)
Can manage highly complex caseload (Band 8)
Works within a supervision framework for ACP (Band 8)

Desirable

Can manage highly complex caseload (Band 7)

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Healthcare Practitioner (Band 7 & 8)
MSc in advanced Clinical Practice/Royal college credentials/HEE accredited ACP (2) OR Willingness to work towards and already hold Non-Medical Prescribing (2) and Advanced Clinical Skills Qualification (2) at level 7 (Band 8)
Completed portfolio of professional development which evidences an advanced level of clinical practice in line with HEE (2017) frameworks for ACP (2) OR willingness to work towards and evidence of completed band 7 clinical nurse practitioner competencies (2) (Band 8)
Portfolio demonstrating continued professional development (Band 7)

Desirable

Successful completed modules / short courses which are relevant to their role and are equivalent to master's level (L7) Supplemented by post graduate specialist training which may have been delivered in house (Band 7)
Ability and drive to complete the MSc in advanced clinical practice successfully and attain the full ACP MSc qualification (Band 7)
ALS Provider/Instructor (Band 7 & 8)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Experience of mentoring and developing staff (Band 7 & 8)
Working knowledge of the trust ACP strategy and policy (Band 7 & 8)

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Extensive clinical experience in speciality at a Senior Level (Band 7 & 8)
Can manage highly complex caseload (Band 8)
Works within a supervision framework for ACP (Band 8)

Desirable

Can manage highly complex caseload (Band 7)

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Healthcare Practitioner (Band 7 & 8)
MSc in advanced Clinical Practice/Royal college credentials/HEE accredited ACP (2) OR Willingness to work towards and already hold Non-Medical Prescribing (2) and Advanced Clinical Skills Qualification (2) at level 7 (Band 8)
Completed portfolio of professional development which evidences an advanced level of clinical practice in line with HEE (2017) frameworks for ACP (2) OR willingness to work towards and evidence of completed band 7 clinical nurse practitioner competencies (2) (Band 8)
Portfolio demonstrating continued professional development (Band 7)

Desirable

Successful completed modules / short courses which are relevant to their role and are equivalent to master's level (L7) Supplemented by post graduate specialist training which may have been delivered in house (Band 7)
Ability and drive to complete the MSc in advanced clinical practice successfully and attain the full ACP MSc qualification (Band 7)
ALS Provider/Instructor (Band 7 & 8)

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Experience of mentoring and developing staff (Band 7 & 8)
Working knowledge of the trust ACP strategy and policy (Band 7 & 8)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).