Job overview

Job summary

If you're ready for a new challenge, come and join our Health and Justice team!

Spectrum is seeking a skilled, experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to provide essential clinical support to our Health and Justice services.

We're looking for 2 confident ACP's with experience of managing complex care and making decisions autonomously, based on sound evidence-based principles. The ideal candidate will have experience in supporting vulnerable people and working collaboratively with GPs, pharmacists and Registered Nurses to provide the best outcomes for patients.

As an ACP, you'll be a role model and ambassador to our nursing teams and will support them as a senior clinical leader, facilitating safe and effective prescribing, care planning and clinical decision-making.

You will also advise and mentor developing ACPs (where appropriate) and provide a high standard of leadership to colleagues. We're looking for someone with expert clinical assessment skills and a real desire to make a difference - if that sounds like you, get in touch with us today!

Please note the welcome payment is payable to new candidates joining Spectrum Community Health CIC.

There is also opportunity to access a relocation package of up to £8,000

We aim to be flexible in matching your availability with our work patterns and the needs of the service and therefore we are also able to offer part time and flexible working options.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

• As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be responsible for autonomously making decisions in the clinical assessment and delivery of evidence-based treatment for patients.
• You will use clinical information to adjust care and treatment including medications or provide onward referral to appropriate health professionals.

• The role requires the effective delivery of primary care services including initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, safe and effective prescribing, care planning and evaluation of care. Prescribing acutely for clinical conditions appropriately and where relevant in accordance with NICE guidelines and local pathways and protocols.
• Undertaking medication reviews from SystmOne repeat templates including read coding entries and identifying individuals warranting MDTs or GP review.
• Providing mentoring and supervision to developing ACPs where appropriate.

Working for our organisation

BE THE DIFFERENCE IN HEALTHCARE

Join our team

We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our diverse and innovative team.

Whether you are starting out in your healthcare journey or are an experienced healthcare professional looking for a new challenge we’ve got a role for you!

• Access to NHS Pension
• Annual leave on your Birthday
• Welcome payment for some posts
• Refer a friend scheme
• Training and Development opportunities
• Flexible Working
• Access to Employee Assistance and Health and Wellbeing programmes
• Up to 33 days annual leave

We have an ambition to become a truly lived experience inclusive employer, changing how we approach staff experience and value personal stories our colleagues bring with them.

We welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience, those who belong to LGBTQIA+ Community and are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex and Asexual, people with a disability, neurodivergent applicants and people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds. 

Spectrum Community Health CIC provides a range of award-winning healthcare services on behalf of the NHS, Local Authority Public Health services, and other partners across substance misuse, sexual health, and health and justice settings. As a not-for-profit social enterprise and Community Interest Company our focus is centred on people – our patients, service users, staff and partners.