Trainee / Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our team in beautiful Herefordshire.

We are looking for an ACP to work mainly within our Urgent Community Response (UCR) team with frequent work on our Virtual Wards and Complex Long Term Conditions services. There may also be the opportunity to work flexibly across our frailty wards in our community hospitals too.

In our community teams, we support people in their own homes (including residential care) bringing healthcare they need to them, offering holistic assessment /interventions, working closely with the wider community teams to ensure the person in our care has a smooth journey through our services, receiving the high quality health care that we all want for ourselves and our families.

Working patterns will be between 8am and 8pm over 7 days per week. You will be responsible for managing patients in their own homes to help avoid hospital admission.

The role will primarily be working in our UCR/ Virtual Wards teams but there will be need to cover the Complex Long Term Conditions ACP service and some opportunity to work with our Community Hospitals also.

Band 6-8a dependant on experience (preference for candidate who already holds MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice and has experience in the field. (Consideration will be given for the right candidate with extensive experience relevant to our speciality, to complete the MSc via an apprentice/training pathway within our team).

Main duties of the job
To practice as highly specialist clinician for patients with complex health conditions and/or at risk of imminent hospital admission. To offer holistic assessment and treatment for patients in their own home (whenever appropriate) to maximise health and wellbeing and minimise reliance on in-patient services and primary care physicians.

You will use your core skills to work to the full scope of our practice to ensure the most effective treatment and possible outcomes possible.

There will be ongoing support for CPD and acquiring competencies relevant to the field.

We support the daily function of the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards services, offering clinical support on triage of referrals and clinical assessments to our colleagues as required.

We work closely as a team to ensure the multiple facets of our role can be undertaken with a supportive and flexible dynamic and to maintain highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills.

Our dynamic team strive for excellence in all areas of work across the 4 pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, sharing an ethos of lifelong learning, holistic patient care, team working and professionalism.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential

• Degree Level education, NMC or HCPC registered
• Masters diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice/Health Assessment or equivalent post-graduate study Level 7*
• MSc Advanced Practice/ willingness to complete MSc Advanced Practice*
• Independent Prescriber* (or PGD qualification for Professions without prescribing within professional competencies)

Desirable

• Teaching/ Assessment and mentoring qualification

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential

• Demonstrable clinical skills in Community working
• Advanced knowledge of the range of presentations, diagnoses & current management options within the speciality area
• Evidence of planning & organisational skills
• Completion/ working towards/willingness to complete speciality portfolio (where required and if indicated nationally).

Experience
Essential

• Significant relevant post-registration experience within the speciality
• Competent in the planning and managing of complete clinical episodes of care for all patients; working autonomously
• Experience of teaching at informal and formal level.
• Able to role model and lead whilst working independently and within a team.

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).

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.