Job summary
Modality
Partnership Walsall Division has a full-time vacancy for an Advanced Care Practitioner for 37.5 hours per week working at Pleck Health Centre. The
successful candidate will play a vital role in delivering high-quality patient
care, utilising advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and manage
patient conditions across the Walsall Division. This position requires a strong
foundation in anatomy knowledge and the ability to administer medications
effectively. 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 starting from
£55,000 per annum WTE. Trainee Advanced Care Practitioners are welcome to
apply and starting salary for them would be £46,000 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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse.
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.
- MSc or equivalent.
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 challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions and new alternative methods of service delivery.
- Ability to align processes and systems to support and deliver priorities.
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organisations.
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.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
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
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered first level general nurse.
- Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.
- MSc or equivalent.
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 challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions and new alternative methods of service delivery.
- Ability to align processes and systems to support and deliver priorities.
- Ability to synthesise complex information and produce written reports.
- Ability to influence and shape the views of key stakeholder and partner organisations.
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.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Self-directed practitioner.
- Highly motivated.
- Flexibility.
- Enthusiasm.
- Team player.
- Ability to work across boundaries.
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).
