Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Package Description:
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner , you'll be part of our valued team in our Hospital at Home service based at in either Swindon, BaNES or Bristol localities, you will provide acute hospitallevel care to patients across the locality.

• Band 8a AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hospital at Home team as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) b ased at in either Swindon, BaNES or Bristol localities, you will provide acute hospitallevel care to patients across the locality.. You will be delivering acute, hospitallevel care to patients across BSWin the place they feel most comfortable: their own home.

Working at the forefront of modern healthcare, you will use your advanced clinical expertise to support patients who are either stepping up from community services or stepping down from an acute hospital setting. This innovative service bridges the gap between acute and community care, bringing together multidisciplinary expertise to deliver consistent, highquality treatment across all pathways.

Our Virtual Ward supports patients who would traditionally require hospital admission, instead enabling them to receive timely clinical review, remote monitoring, and holistic multidisciplinary care at home. This role offers the chance to make a real difference, reducing hospital stays while improving patient experience and outcomes.

You will be part of a forwardthinking, compassionate team who share a passion for delivering safe, effective, and patientcentred care, while shaping the future of Hospital at Home services.

you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Scott on View email address on meeveem.com or Emma Williams on View email address on meeveem.com

Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on View phone number on meeveem.com or View email address on meeveem.com

We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Main Responsibilities
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP ), you will deliver a clinically autonomous service across Urgent Crisis Response, admission avoidance, frailty and Virtual Ward (Hospital at Home) pathways. Using advanced clinical expertise, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients with acute and complex needs, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support safe, timely discharge.

You will apply advanced clinical reasoning to request and interpret investigations, initiate and review treatment plans, prescribe where appropriate, and monitor clinical and remote monitoring data to identify and respond to deterioration. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will develop and review personalised care plans that enable patients to receive highquality acute care at home.

You will provide clinical leadership and act as a senior decisionmaker and role model, practising in line with the four pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice and NMC or HCPC standards. The role requires flexibility to travel across Wiltshire and contribute to a 7day service (07:0022:00). While based in North Wiltshire, you may be required to work across other localities as the service evolves.

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Registered with the NMC or HCPC
• Accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification
• Nonmedical prescribe rqualification
• Significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services or acute care interfaces
• Proven experience managing complex clinical caseloads and working autonomously at an advanced level
• Demonstrable leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams
• Clean driving licence, Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use

Desirable

• Masters degree
• Advanced Clinical Practice Digital Badge
• Experience working in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward or Urgent Care services

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• To qualify, candidates must be registered with the NMC or HCPC and hold an accredited Advanced Clinical Practice qualification. Additionally, a Non-medical prescriber qualification is essential along with significant experience in frailty, elderly care, community services, or acute care interfaces. Proven management of complex clinical caseloads and autonomy at an advanced level are required, along with leadership and supervision experience within multidisciplinary teams. A clean driving license and access to a vehicle for daily use are mandatory. Desirable qualifications include a Masters degree and experience in Hospital at Home, Virtual Ward, or Urgent Care services.

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.