The Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) performs a pivotal role in admission avoidance. We are excited to be expanding our award-winning service to include the Clinical Single Point of Access (SPA). This role has a focus on avoiding unnecessary conveyance or admission to hospital by providing clinical leadership and support to the CAS service and the new single point of access within LCHS. Our aim is to support other health care professionals and patients to navigate through LCHS pathways and beyond, to improve their experience and to achieve the right care, first time.

We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work within the Clinical Assessment Service and provide support and leadership across the divisions' emergency care division admission avoidance pathways. You will be based in Beech House in Lincoln at the heart ofthe Integrated Urgent and Emergency Division, but will be expected to attend other bases to provide support within these pathways when required. The Clinical Assessment Service/SPA provides telephone and virtual clinical assessments and navigation to patients and health care professionals who have been assessed by 111 or other services in Lincolnshire.

The Single point of access is being implemented in line with the Urgent and Emergency Care recovery plan to provide integrated care coordination to ensure that patients are directed to the right care setting, with the right clinician or team at the right time.

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will need to demonstrate that they are able to meet the essential criteria in the person specification and can provide evidence of significant experience in the treatment of minor illness and minor injury. Candidates will also hold a non-medical prescribing qualification.

The post will also include close liaison across our admission avoidance pathways and give higher level clinical support in hospital avoidance.

We are looking for people who can demonstrate and role model the right values and behaviours, and have excellent leadership and communications skills. You will be expected to provide leadership and clinical supervision to colleagues alongside other governance activities as detailed in the job description.

Telephone/Video consultations/face to face, offering advice and support to a wide variety of urgent care presentations over a 24 hour period 365 days a year.

If you fit this description, and have the motivation and flexibility to join this evolving service, this an excellent opportunity to join a highly skilled team to provide quality care.

Candidates will be expected to role model the LCHS values and work to find a solution for patients with complex circumstances that contact the SPA.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Clinical assessment of minor illness and minor injury presentations
• Remote prescribing to appropriate conditions
• Palliative care assessment and support
• Close liaison with other services to ensure all admission avoidance pathways are followed
• Involvement in leadership of the CAS team, including clinical supervision of other colleagues and other governance activities
• Telephone/Video consultations/face to face, offering advice and support to a wide variety of urgent care presentations over a 24 hour period.

Please see the attached detailed job description for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Advanced Clinical Practice Qualifications at Masters Level
• Proven and Current Experience in Urgent care/ Emergency Medicine Setting
• Evidence of Recent Professional Development in the past year and demonstration of seeking & undertaking autonomous learning & Development Opportunities
• Ability to identify Training needs in other Health Care professionals and formulate detailed teaching plans.
• Non-medical prescribing qualification
• Experience in clinical assessment of minor illness and minor injury presentations

Desirable

• Qualification in teaching
• Experience of clinical audit

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust

Address

Beech house

Waterside south

Lincolnshire

LN5 7JH

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