Job Title:

Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner- Older Persons Services

Band

Band 8b

Care Group

Medicine

Directorate:

Older peoples Services and acute medicine Directorate

Department:

Older Peoples Services (SDEC and Ambulatory Service)

Location:

UHD

Accountable to:

Professionally - Senior Matron. Clinically –OPS Clinical Lead

Accountable for:

SDEC and Ambulatory Service

Main Purpose

To provide leadership to ACP SDEC leads within the Older Persons SDEC Service.  Facilitating the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within OPS SDEC using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience.  This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

o provide leadership to ACP’s within the Ambulatory Service for Older Peoples Services, including Day Hospital, Hospital at Home and Ambulatory Clinic.  These services are located across all UHD sites and are imperative to enabling a streamlined service for the front door. 

The Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner will be required to work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the teams across the directorate.  Facilitating the current model of working which includes an In-reach Service to the Emergency Department to pull patients through to SDEC.  Collaboratively working alongside Consultants when assessing appropriate referrals via GP Services.

To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.

To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.

Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the ACP service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.

To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.

To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.