Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7167918-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount McKinley
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Community Response
Band 8a
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Urgent Community Response (UCR) & Virtual Wards Service. The post will form part of a seven day service based within one of the Trust’s locality teams. The service provides patients who are experiencing an acute change in their health, a safe and effective alternative to hospital admission, supported by a mixture of face to face visits and digital technology.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) who shares our passion for providing excellent quality of care and can devise & support the delivery of a holistic and thorough treatment plan to service users in their own home. The post holder will have full access to the Multidisciplinary Team including consultant, GP, Pharmacist, Nurses, Therapists, and Health Care Support Workers.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is required to deliver an advanced level of clinical practice autonomously in the fields of general medicine, Frailty, Respiratory, and Cardiology for patients who are supported by the team as an alternative to hospital admission.
The role will ensure that consistent, high quality, person-centred care is provided daily through the application of advanced clinical judgments and critical thinking to assess, investigate, diagnose, prescribe, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care in line with the National Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice. Embracing the four pillars of clinical practice; leadership and management, education and research.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc qualification in Advanced Practice
- Non-Medical Prescriber (V300)
- Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional with current NMC / HCPC registration
- Relevant qualifications or demonstrable equivalent experience in speciality (Frailty, Care of the elderly/Geriatric’s, End of Life, ALS, minor injuries/illness)
- Evidence of recent CPD
- Teaching and Mentoring qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of expert professional/clinical knowledge and experience within an acute and/or community setting
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner as an ACP, managing patients with undiagnosed clinical conditions, requiring investigations, interpretation of diagnostics, formulation and adjustment of management plans
- Evidence in involvement in supporting the development of programmes if care, protocols and clinical audit
- Evidence of relevant involvement in meeting the Trust clinical governance objective
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- ACP underpinned by theory and experience.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Ability to translate and integrate evidence-based research/guidelines into the development of pathways of care.
- Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes, with the use of negotiation skills
- Computer literate and experience of working with clinical systems
- Excellent clinical reasoning/clinical decision- making
- Knowledge of NHS Community Services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shirley Pickstock
- Job title
- Senior ACP
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07977 556539
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