We are seeking a dedicated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team, sharing our commitment to delivering exceptional quality care and developing comprehensive treatment plans for service users in their homes. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate closely with consultants, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, therapists, and healthcare support workers.

The role requires a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making, supported by a master's level qualification encompassing clinical practice, leadership, management, education, and research. The post holder will manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, analyzing complex problems to devise innovative solutions that enhance outcomes and experiences.

Key responsibilities include delivering advanced clinical practice autonomously in general medicine, frailty, respiratory, and cardiology, focusing on supporting patients as an alternative to hospital admission. Collaborating with colleagues and managers, the post holder will integrate care pathways and patient management across community and acute settings.

The role emphasizes the delivery of consistent, high-quality, person-centered care through advanced clinical judgment and critical thinking, aligning with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice and embracing the four pillars of clinical practice: leadership and management, education, and research.

Main duties of the job

• Have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices across several specialist fields in community services.
• Work independently, demonstrating a high degree of professional autonomy, making critical judgments, and providing advice where precedence or protocols do not apply or exist.
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams, utilizing clinical judgment and autonomous decision-making.
• Practice in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy, recognizing the limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice, especially when dealing with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

We are seeking a dedicated Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team, sharing our commitment to delivering exceptional quality care and developing comprehensive treatment plans for service users in their homes. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate closely with consultants, GPs, pharmacists, nurses, therapists, and healthcare support workers.

The role requires a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making, supported by a master's level qualification encompassing clinical practice, leadership, management, education, and research. The post holder will manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, analyzing complex problems to devise innovative solutions that enhance outcomes and experiences.

Key responsibilities include delivering advanced clinical practice autonomously in general medicine, frailty, respiratory, and cardiology, focusing on supporting patients as an alternative to hospital admission. Collaborating with colleagues and managers, the post holder will integrate care pathways and patient management across community and acute settings.

The role emphasizes the delivery of consistent, high-quality, person-centered care through advanced clinical judgment and critical thinking, aligning with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice and embracing the four pillars of clinical practice: leadership and management, education, and research.

Main Duties

• Have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of work procedures and practices across several specialist fields in community services.
• Work independently, demonstrating a high degree of professional autonomy, making critical judgments, and providing advice where precedence or protocols do not apply or exist.
• Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams, utilizing clinical judgment and autonomous decision-making.
• Work in partnership with individuals, families, and carers, utilizing a range of appropriate assessment methods (e.g., history-taking, holistic assessment, identifying risk factors, mental health assessments, requesting, undertaking, and/or interpreting diagnostic tests, and conducting health needs assessments).
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting individuals in making decisions, planning care, or seeking positive changes, using Health Education Englands framework to promote person-centered approaches in health and care.
• Utilize expertise and decision-making skills to apply clinical reasoning in complex situations, synthesizing information from multiple sources for evidence-based judgments and diagnoses.
• Initiate, evaluate, and modify a range of interventions, which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice, and care.
• Exercise professional judgment to manage risks effectively in complex and unpredictable.
• Work collaboratively and carryout joint visits members with MDT colleagues within the team to promote holistic person-centered assessment and approach to care.
• To continually have awareness of the need to respect peoples privacy, dignity and individuality and aim to provide care in an environment which is appropriate to the wishes of the person and to their current physical and emotional needs.
• To continually develop and review acute illness pathways and practices to ensure that services are delivered efficiently and effectively providing best value to people and organisations.
• Practice in compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and within their scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions, and omissions at this level of practice.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy, recognizing the limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice, especially when dealing with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information.
• Act on professional judgment about when to seek help, demonstrating critical reflection on their own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
• NMC nurse registered/Other allied healthcare professional (HCPC).
• Evidence of a portfolio of knowledge, skills, and professional development

Skills and abilities

Essential

• Advanced clinical assessment skills.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• Effective communicator: able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge and experience within an acute and/or community setting.
• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner as an ACP, managing patients with undiagnosed clinical conditions, requiring investigations, interpretation of diagnostics, formulation and adjustment of management plans.
• Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objective.

Personal qualities

Essential

• Professional demeanor
• Strong organizational skills with a focus on prioritizing workload effectively
• Demonstrates leadership by setting a high standard of quality and compliance Compassionate and empathetic approach

Employer details

Employer name

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Address

St Michael's

Enfield

EN2 0JB

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393-NMUH-1557