Job summary
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Urgent Community Response)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for us to expand our Advance Clinical Practitioner workforce. This is available to both AHPs and Nurses with ACP qualification educated at masters level.
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff; Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls. MMUH will host the busiest Emergency Department in Europe, with state of the art facilities and future development of a Learning Campus.
Our Urgent Community Response team will be critical to the model of our acute hospital. The UCR team are integral to delivering care in peoples home as part of the home first standard. This team is part of the Get It Right First Time (GIRFT) and our no wrong door ethos.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an autonomous practitioner, conducting independent health assessment for undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions around the nine UCR conditions.
They will provide clinical leadership and support for tACPs and the wider UCR team workforce across Primary Care, Community and Therapies group. The post holder will have the opportunity to contribute to service development, contribution to governance, and clinical standards.
They will support and play a key role in the development and supervision of advanced practice within the team.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with relevant professional body- e.g. NMC/HCPC
- Masters Degree in Advanced Practice
- Independent non-medical prescribing, if from a core profession in which NMP is supported or when relevant to the role
- Life Support qualification
Desirable criteria
- Leadership / management course.
- ILS/ALS/APLS/ATLSdelete as appropriate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive clinical experience
- Excellent clinical and practical skills
- Evidence of practice within the four pillars of Advanced Practice
- Evidence of continuous professional development and the practical application of new skills to the workplace
- Direct supervision of junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within specialty
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Advanced interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to work effectively with diverse populations.
- Demonstrate self-belief, self- awareness and ability to self-manage.
- Ability to deal with complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
- Critically analyse complex information and evaluate a range of options to identify service improvements practice
- Demonstrate ability make recommendations to improve practice to improve efficiency whilst also improving patient experience
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Trish Burke
- Job title
- Clinical Lead/ACP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07817087137
- Additional information
Alternatively, you may contact:
Anna McCall, Clinical Service Lead on 07817396192 [email protected]
Trish Burke, Clinical Service Lead/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner on 07817087137 [email protected]
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