Advanced Clinical Practitioner Single Point Access

Job description

Job responsibilities

Summary

This role provides an innovative opportunity for a suitably trained and experienced ACP to work within the Integrated Single Point of Access in Worcestershire. Successful applicants will provide clinical support within a multidisciplinary team consisting of practitioners from Acute and Community service providers to help manage local urgent care demands via the Single Point of Access.

Working alongside an Interface Consultant, this role provides opportunity to develop skills in urgent care management and delivery of community-based urgent care within the hospital at home model.

There is flexibility to agree attractive work patterns that meet your needs, and there is a selection of clinical settings in the hospital that can be matched to your clinical strengths and provide professional development opportunities.

Who Will It Suit?

We are seeking capable, flexible clinicians who enjoy working in teams, the challenge of urgent care, and the additional interest of helping develop a new and innovative service. You must be highly motivated to deliver patient centred, contemporary, better value healthcare in innovative ways.

Worcestershire Acute Urgent Care teams are dynamic and friendly, and you will work with substantial autonomy, but the support when needed of highly capable colleagues.

The Role

The successful applicant will provide clinical expertise for a wide array of acute injury and illnesses, and provide support to the Single Point of Access triage teams in determining the correct route through which patients can access urgent care.

Alongside the Interface Consultant, they will deliver the call before you convey service and proactively support the remote clinical decision-making of WMAS Crews when attending older people aged 75 years and over. This role will ensure that where possible, people are managed at home rather than through unnecessary conveyance to hospital, and utilise the full breadth and depth of the community directory of service.

Within this function of the role, the successful applicant must be able to prescribe medicines remotely, request and interpret appropriate investigations, and provide adequate safety netting advice for when community care fails and hospital conveyance becomes a necessity.

Hours of work will be discussed and agreed on an individual basis. The breadth of our services and teams means that unusual work patterns can often be accommodated. As well as regular sessions in-hours working within the broader team, we ask that there is a meaningful contribution to our-of-hours patient care (weekends).

Personal Development

There will be a structured developmental support, with an induction, educational agreement, personal development plan and regular appraisals.

Within agreed job plans, 10% of time be available for continuing medical education (CME) and there will be access to the range of Worcestershire Acute Hospital library and postgraduate facilities. In addition, successful applicants will be mentored by an experienced clinician with relevant experience and understanding.

Successful applicants will be able to apply for paid study leave to develop relevant skills. It is expected that they will play a significant role in clinical governance activities and in continual service development to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Vision and Values:

The Trust aims to provide local services for local people. It has developed its vision to reflect this commitment.

To continue to be the major provider of acute/specialist services for the people of Worcestershire (and wider) with a strong reputation for providing outstanding, high quality, reliable, accessible and integrated healthcare for local people

Driving this commitment are the Trust-wide signature behaviours:

Do what we say we will do

No Delays, every day

We listen, we learn, we lead

Work together, celebrate together

Standard Clauses:

The purpose of this post should remain constant, but the duties and responsibilities may vary over time within the overall role and level of the post. The post holder may from time to time be asked to undertake other reasonable duties. Any such changes will be made in discussion with the post holder in the light of service needs.

Competence

The post holder is responsible for limiting his / her actions to those which s/he feels competent to undertake. If the post holder has any doubts as to his or her competence during the course of his / her duties then s/he should immediately speak to their line manager or supervisor.

Codes of conduct

All employees of the Trust who are required to be registered with a professional body, to enable them to practise within their profession, are required to comply with their code of conduct and requirements of their professional registration. Those staff that are not required to be registered with a professional body are required to comply with the Trusts codes of conduct.

Confidentiality

The post holder must maintain confidentiality, security and integrity of information relating to patients, staff and other Health Service business.

Records Management

All employees of the Trust are legally responsible for all records that they gather, create or use as part of their work within the Trust (including patient, financial, personnel and administrative), whether paper or computer based. All such records are considered public records and all employees have a legal duty of confidence to service users. Employees should consult their manager if they have any doubt as to the correct management of records with which they work.

Health and Safety

Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them under the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974) and the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992) and all relevant Trust Health and Safety Policies and Guidance. This ensures that the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment for employees, patients and visitors to the Trust.

Person Specification

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• Experience in managing and developing other healthcare professionals
• Team leadership experience and awareness of human factors that can affect performance

Experience

Essential

• At least 2 years experience as a fully trained ACP working in an Emergency Department or Assessment Unit to the level of a Tier 3 clinician
• Ability to manage differentiated and undifferentiated presentations in all areas / streams in the Emergency Department
• Knowledge to request and interpret appropriate investigations within accepted policies and practice

Desirable

• Experience in telemedicine or acute frailty services
• Experience of working across boundaries of acute and community-based care

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent qualification
• Masters in Advanced Practice (MSc) and competence in managing acute illness (medical, surgical) and injury
• Previous ALS / EPALS / APLS / ETC / ATLS Provider with update in last 5 years, or evidence of recent learning and development around life support course objectives
• Non-Medical Prescribing

Desirable

• Instructor Status
• Successful completion of Collegiate Credentialing status
• Minor Illness Module
• Minor Injury Module

Teaching Experience

Essential

• Coordination of teaching programmes / conferences for the development of trainee ACPs
• Teaching of junior staff and/or involvement in training programmes

Desirable

• Experience of teaching clinical skills to undergraduates.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)