Job summary
Modality Partnership Walsall Division has a full-time vacancy for a fully qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners are also welcome to
apply. The postholder will be a high performing qualified ACP, working at one of the sites across Modality Walsall Division delivering person centred, safe and effective patient care. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £55,000 per annum WTE.
This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from:
Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
Employee discounts and benefits scheme
Employee assistance programme (EAP)
Education and career pathways
Enhanced Family friendly policies
Flexible working
Wellbeing support and initiative
If you are interested in learning more, please read on.
Main duties of the job
The role is an all-rounded, clinical ACP role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as ability to work on own initiative, ability to develop an evidence-based, personalised, integrated health and social care plan in partnership with the individual, carers, relatives and health care professionals, based on a full assessment of medical, nursing and social care needs, and demonstrate ability to act as an autonomous advanced practitioner providing a comprehensive clinical assessment service to patients/carers/families resulting in safe, appropriate clinical decisions. The postholder will work in collaboration with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.
The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility and commitment and the postholder will be required to work on quality improvement as outlined in the job specification and work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.
About us
We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills and development and operational skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.
All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.
Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for providing high quality patient care, thinking outside the box, are innovative and are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
You will love this job if you have a passion for providing high quality patient care, thinking outside the box, are innovative and are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.
Pre-employment
Vaccinations
As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.
Right to work checks
All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.
References
References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.
Employment history
You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.
- Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.
- Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.
- Ability to lead/critically contribute to and influence the strategic agenda and translate complex strategy into deliverable operational objectives.
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organisations.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse.
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.
- MSc or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience.
- Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience.
- Mentor/teaching qualification.
- Clinical supervision training and experience.
- Extended/supplementary prescriber.
- Experience of developing and maintaining positive and effective partnerships with partner organisations.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities and challenges.
- Understanding of the national health and social care agenda and familiarity with emerging strategy.
- Understanding of the strategic direction of the ACP role and how this may develop over time.
- Advanced clinical practice skills in acute presentation of minor ailments.
- Management of patients with complex needs.
- Accountability of own role and other roles in a primary care service.
- Local and national health policy.
- Wider health economy.
- Clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Patient group directions and associated policy.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.
- Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.
- Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.
- Ability to lead/critically contribute to and influence the strategic agenda and translate complex strategy into deliverable operational objectives.
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organisations.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse.
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.
- MSc or equivalent.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years post registration experience.
- Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience.
- Mentor/teaching qualification.
- Clinical supervision training and experience.
- Extended/supplementary prescriber.
- Experience of developing and maintaining positive and effective partnerships with partner organisations.
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of the local healthcare system, its priorities and challenges.
- Understanding of the national health and social care agenda and familiarity with emerging strategy.
- Understanding of the strategic direction of the ACP role and how this may develop over time.
- Advanced clinical practice skills in acute presentation of minor ailments.
- Management of patients with complex needs.
- Accountability of own role and other roles in a primary care service.
- Local and national health policy.
- Wider health economy.
- Clinical governance issues in primary care.
- Patient group directions and associated policy.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
