Job summary
- Main area
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 818-HOS062
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Hospitals predominantly Scotter Ward
- Town
- Lincolnshire
- Salary
- £48,526 - £54,619 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
LCHS Way
We Listen, We Care, We Act, We Improve
We listen: we engage with everyone we work with, we are united, we are always positive
We care: everyone is valued, respected and developed, knowledge and skills are nurtured, success is celebrated
We act: clear goals and right resources, freedom coupled with accountabilty, emphasis on simplicity
We improve: we are creative, resourceful and innovative, integrated and collaboration is the way forward, we're always striving to do better
....Fit for now, fit for the future.
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Job overview
Are you a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner?
Come and join us at Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of our Community Hospital wards providing inpatient care within Lincolnshire.
The ACP will use specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients in their area. They will have accountability for independent clinical assessments, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated conditions. In addition to this the ACP will also be responsible for appropriately referring patients to relevant specialities for any necessary inpatient or outpatient investigations as well as facilitating safe patient discharge.
Our care pathways include Palliative care and end of life; rehabilitation (this includes stroke patients stepping down from acute care) and transitional care.
We have 4 locations; Gainsborough, Louth, Spalding and Skegness.
Please specify your favoured site to work at in your application
Main duties of the job
What are we offering?
Successful candidates will need to demonstrate that they are able to meet the essential criteria in the person specification and can provide evidence of significant experience in the treatment of long-term conditions, frailty, and palliation. Candidates will also hold a non-medical prescribing qualification.
We are looking for people who can demonstrate the right values and behaviours and have excellent leadership and communications skills.
As part of a team, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, with support from our ward medical practitioners.
If you fit this description and have the motivation and flexibility to join this evolving service, this an excellent opportunity to join a highly skilled team to provide quality care.
Working for our organisation
Who are we?
Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust (LCHS) are the primary community healthcare provider across Lincolnshire. Delivering services aimed to support people to manage their own health closer to home, both in the community and in our nurse led inpatient units.
As an organisation we have been rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission and are playing an integral part in shaping future health service provision countywide alongside our partners in Health and Social care.
Living in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is wonderfully diverse, from a thriving University City in the centre, to the rolling hills of the Wolds and the beautiful 30 mile stretch of sand at the coast. We celebrate the mix of heritage and modern developments which provide fun opportunities for all the family.
Thinking of relocating?
Lincolnshire boasts an affordable lifestyle and LCHS also offer relocation packages for successful applicants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful candidates will need to demonstrate that they are able to meet the essential criteria in the person specification and can provide evidence of significant experience in the treatment of long-term conditions, frailty and palliation. You will be required to have and an MSC in Advanced Clinical Practice. Candidates will also hold a non-medical prescribing qualification.
There may also be an opportunity to work with our Urgent Care colleagues to gain insight and experience in this area of care.
Please see attached job description and person specification for detailed outline of the role’s main duties.
The current vacancy is for a full-time role working day shifts pro rata over a 7-day period.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Health Care Professional holding current registration with appropriate regulatory body.
- Postgraduate study in Advanced Clinical Practice/Autonomous Practice at Masters level
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Safeguarding-level 3 or willingness to undertake
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Previous Experinece
Essential criteria
- Evidence of recent and on-going personal development including obvious leadership development
- Experience of education and training issues/requirements for undergraduate and post graduate members of professions.
- Extensive post registration experience in relevant settings, including experience in the management of long term conditions, frailty and palliation.
- Demonstrates specialist knowledge of operational management, education and leadership
- Skills for analysis of service delivery and improvement planning.
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate a working knowledge and experience of the governance agenda locally.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Donna Phillips
- Job title
- Clinical Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01427 816542
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