Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Job summary

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams. They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations.

Main duties of the job

1. Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct. The postholder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework.

2. Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).

3. Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.

4. Participate and lead team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.

5. Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.

Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures

About us

Maintain professional registration by developing own knowledge and skills to ensure delivery of evidence based advanced clinical practice.

Provide and receive clinical supervision in order to continuously grow own knowledge and improve the quality of care to patients.

Act as a specialist source of knowledge, teaching and facilitating learning in order to develop the skills of the Clinical Teams with a responsibility for monitoring their practice and competence.

Support students (pre and post registration) whilst on placements by providing a quality learning environment.

Responsible for leading in devising and delivering training and development for clinicians across the division to assist with quality assurance and governance.

Provide educational and training opportunities to students and colleagues, ensuring placements meet the relevant elements of their learning outcomes.

Assess the competence of other staff to undertake expanded roles to enhance the delivery of patient care.

Lead and actively participate in the delivery of educational programmes for all grades of nursing, medical and allied health professional staff.

Recognise the limits of own professional practice and competence, undertake further training, learning and academic qualifications as required to maintain own specialist knowledge.

Adapt clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings.