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Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Ward 2 WPH

Employer
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Location
Wolverhampton
Salary
£50,952 to £57,349 per annum pro rata
Closing date
6 Aug 2024

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Profession
Other Health Profession
Grade
Band 8A
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We are currently looking for an experienced, knowledgeable and educated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team on Adult Community Services - West Park Ward 2. You will be able to work autonomously making high level decisions to treat health needs as part of the wider MDT.

Ward 2 at West Park Hospital ismoving towards an ACP led structure, replacing the current medical model, to proactively manage those patients still in receipt of hospital based care, optimising their condition to support rapid onward transfer to the place they call home. There will be a requirement to facilitate ward rounds, huddles and undertake planned and unplanned clinical interventions to prevent a transfer back to the acute site. In addition, there is the opportunity to develop the escalation pathways that will facilitate a 2 hour response from the Community Urgent Care team, to prevent an ED attendance or hospital admission and contribute to ongoing evaluation of this new way of working.

The role will be integral to ensuring that West Park continues to be a vibrant community hospital that offers specialist rehab across the Black Country, and the successful candidate will need to work collaboratively with the ACS management team and West Park clinical teams to deliver this.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy and make critical judgements to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role and service. The post holder will support the Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner in developing a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients. This post is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families and populations.

To be professionally accountable and maintain the standards of professional practice as set by the appropriate regulatory body applicable to your profession or role.

To be accountable for :
  • Ensuring safe and effective clinical practice
  • Enhancing the patient's experience
  • Managing and developing the performance of the team
  • Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation's objectives
  • Political and strategic awareness
  • Promoting health and healthy lifestyles within the direct community.


About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as Good by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Registration Nurse or HCPC registration
  • Master's level education [Healthcare related] / Working towards
  • Health Assessment qualification
  • Experienced V300 Non-Medical Prescriber


Desirable

  • Experience of autonomous practice in a secondary setting
  • Evidence of professional updating within last 12 months specific to sphere of practice


Employer details

Employer name

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Address

West Park Hospital - Ward 2

Wolverhampton

WV1 4PW

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

225-DIV3-6066035

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