Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services (CHS) Division of NottsHC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home.

The division operates under three Units of Management providing an extensive portfolio of children's, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. We offer various clinical and non-clinical roles, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.

Main duties of the job

Our integrated teams of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people who present with significant physical health care needs in various settings including clinic based, community inpatient, hospices to care in the patient's own home, including care homes, enabling them to be independent, self-caring and live their optimum lives, reducing hospital admissions.

Services range from community nursing, including specialist practitioners, to public health and health promotion such as school nursing and health visiting, with many specialist community services designed to support care pathways such as Physiotherapy, OT, Speech and Language, Dietetics and Podiatry.

Supporting the efficient running of these services are administrative and managerial roles. All roles, at all levels, are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.

Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Bassetlaw Urgent Care Service (BUCS) at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for dynamic, qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioners either from a Nursing or Allied Health Professional background who have recent experience within either Primary Care, Emergency Care or Community setting to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the autonomous assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients of all ages via telephone triage, face to face and home visiting consultations within the Bassetlaw District.

BUCS provides several key roles within the Bassetlaw District including seeing patients with a primary care sensitive condition referred directly from the Emergency Department, providing an out of hours Primary Care Service including telephone triage and face to face consultations and also providing an ACP home visiting service to assess minor illness, acute deterioration in chronic illness and supporting palliative care patients, with a view to stabilising patients in their own homes and preventing unnecessary admission to hospital. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their skills and experience by rotating through a variety of shift patterns covering the various aspects within the BUCS portfolio.

The successful candidate must have a MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or equivalent and be confident in their ability to work autonomously in a variety of settings. Ideally you will haveexperience of dealing with minor injuries/minor illness, frailty, long term conditions and palliative care.

The post holder will need to have excellent organisational skills, be a good communicator, work well within a team, demonstrate a caring, compassionate, and professional approach to patients and colleagues. Experience in supporting other staff members and team leadership is paramount.

We would love to hear from you if you can

Demonstrate your passion and clinical ability to assess patients who present with significant physical health care needs.

Analyse and develop treatment plans, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, providing compassionate, realistic and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.

Support our patients within a community setting that enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs to avoid and reduce hospital admissions.

Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Person Specification
Skills
Essential

• Empathetic and psychologically minded
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Well organised
• Good reasoning skills
• Leadership skills
• Team builder and team member
• Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision
• Reflective practitioner
• Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this

Desirable

• Highly specialist skill
• Experience of supporting other staff and students including training
• Experience of managing a project or service initiative
• Experience of leading service development

Experience
Essential

• Experience and expertise in assessing and managing complex caseloads
• Experience of leading service development
• Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Experience of MDT Teams
• Experience in using research evaluation / audit tools and demonstrating need
• Experience of clinically supervising others

Desirable

• Experience of service improvement initiatives

Qualifications
Essential

• Recognised NMC or HCPC Degree/Diploma
• NMC Registered or HCPC Registered
• Recognised ACP Masters Qualification

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