Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Trainee Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Acute Clinical Team in Bridgend as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

ACT is part of the wider Community Resource Team (CRT) in Bridgend and provides a hospital admission avoidance service, responding rapidly to people in crisis because of frailty and/or managing acute medical problems at home.

This is a multi-disciplinary team of Consultants, Advanced Practitioners, Nurses, Physiotherapists, OTs and Health Care Support Workers supported by the wider MDT in CRT which includes Social Workers, SALT, Dietitians, Pharmacy and Mental Health Professionals.

Since merging into the new Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board, the Bridgend ACT now has an updated vision for this service.

Come join us on this exciting journey to develop and grow this intermediate care service that aims to keep people home and avoid admissions to hospital.

Professionals who are Nurses, Physiotherapists and Paramedics by professional registration are invited to apply for this position.

While Professionals who meet the person specification and hold appropriate M.Sc. level education (such as an M.Sc. in Advanced Clinical Practitioner and Independent Prescribing qualifications) are desirable, we will consider applicants who can demonstrate they are a good fit for the service and have relevant, transferrable skills, education and experience to be taken on in a trainee ACP role.

Main duties of the job

Any applicant taken on in a trainee ACP capacity will be offered the position under Annex 21 of the Terms and Conditions for Agenda for Change. Details are contained in the attached JD/PS titled ACP Annex 21. If you are already employed in NHS Wales, there will be no financial detriment as per the Annex 21 Guidance Document attached.

Predominately, the role is clinical and Practitioners are required to see and assess people in their own homes who present with a wide array of clinical and often frailty related problems. Taking a clinical history, undertaking clinical examination and work up with our Consultants and delivering treatment and care form the core of the role.

The role also has substantial leadership and management aspects with Practitioners taking the lead of a team of multi-professionals, delegating and allocating work, managing an acute and clinical caseload and acting as both a gate keeper to the service as well as the point of clinical escalation.

Practitioners will also be involved in training and education initiatives including engaging with the Universities and Practitioners will be involved in the audit, research and strategic development of the service.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.