Job overview

A great opportunity has risen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work alongside our skilled Multi Disciplinary Team,  over a 7 day rota period, to ensure that there is an effective nurse led service on our inpatient ward. This role is newly created to enable a nurse led service, you will join our current Advanced practitioners and between the three of you will cover over 7 days.  

The memorial ward is a 16 bedded inpatient unit  providing treatment for Adult patients  who have been transferred from  acute hospitals. The  admission criteria is to provide patients with rehabilitation, symptom control and end of life care, this includes those who are community step up admissions.  

The ward has been through a change from a  medical model, to now having a focus of becoming an Advanced Care Practitioner / Nurse led inpatient unit.

The post holder will be required to  work autonomously, without immediate support and supervision. You will deliver safe, effective clinical decision-making and expert quality care, including assessment, diagnosis, clinical management and evaluation to the community services patients specially but not exclusively those under the care of the community inpatient wards.

The role encompasses the four pillars of clinical practise, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies. 

Those in  ACP training in year 2 onwards  may be considered. Bank can also be considered  for those that achieve the interview benchmark.

Main duties of the job

• An Advanced Clinical Practitioner is a highly qualified and experienced registered Health Care Professional; you will be a Nurse, Paramedic or Physiotherapist who is qualified with an appropriate master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice relevant to Community Services. 
• It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making across an expanded scope of practise.
• The post holder will be accountable for his or her own area of practise and be compliant with their respective code of practise.
• The post holder must work at all times within your own competence and use your own judgement, knowledge and common sense in your day-to-day activities ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.

• The post holder will provide high standards of patient care, embed clinical policies and guidelines and standardise clinical governance within the practice.
• The post holder will work with the locality matron to standardise policies and patient care.
• They will continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice on service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, across the Hull and East Riding residential and nursing homes.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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