Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Job summary
"Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible"

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams. They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations.

Main duties of the job

• Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct. The postholder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework.
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).
• Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.
• Participate in team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.
• Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures.

About us
Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities
Key Relationships
To establish effective working relation with the following:

• Staff within the professional group
• Clinical Team Leaders
• Service Managers
• Heads of Service/General Managers
• Clinical and Divisional Directors
• GPs
• Local Authority partners
• Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies
• Care Home Managers
• Social Care

Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential

• Registered Nurse Level 1/ AHP, NMC or HCPC registered
• Disease specific post graduate or accredited qualification
• Non-medical prescriber qualification (V300)
• Mentor/Teaching qualification ENB 998 or equivalent
• Masters in advanced practice qualification (MSc)
• Evidence of recent continuing professional development
• Leadership course
• ALS provider
• Recognised 'Advanced Health Assessment' qualification (minimum degree level course)

Desirable

• Understanding the complex and dynamic needs of a multi-cultural socially diverse community
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles (adults and children)

Experience
Essential

• Extensive relevant up to date clinical experience
• Evidence of leading service development. Participation/experience of mentoring colleagues and students
• Evidence of collaborative working within a multi-professional environment
• Evidence of supporting others in a clinical environment
• Evidence of leading service development. Participation/experience of mentoring colleagues and students
• Experience of trainee supervision & teaching
• Evidence of up-to-date based knowledge & skills, particularly in long- term conditions & first contact

Desirable

• Knowledge of safeguarding principles (adults and children)

Skills/Knowledge
Essential

• Evidence of leading service development. Participation/experience of mentoring colleagues and students
• Knowledge of national and local policy that impacts upon the health and well- being of patients with complex, long- term conditions and unscheduled care
• Advanced clinical practice skills
• Understanding the complex and dynamic needs of a multi-cultural socially diverse community
• Knowledge of safeguarding principles (adults and children)
• Computer literacy skills

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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).