Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 150-OM9878-EAS-F
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewes Intermediate Care Unit
- Town
- Lewes
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per Annum/Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Practitioner- Urgent Care
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and patient-focused leader with a passion for developing people and delivering exemplary urgent care services? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to act as a clinical leader for our team of practitioners across the East Area Urgent Care units, including the Lewes Urgent Treatment Centre, Uckfield, and Crowborough Minor Injury Units.
This is an exciting time to join our urgent care unit. We have established an Urgent and Emergency Clinical Reference Group to explore ways to improve our staffing models, clinical pathways, training, and supervision. This initiative aims to ensure that all our staff are well-supported, enabling them to provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will:
- Clinically lead and inspire a dedicated team of practitioners.
- Deliver high-quality urgent care services at the heart of the community.
- Support the professional growth and development of your team.
- Play a key role in shaping the future of urgent and emergency care.
We are seeking someone who is ambitious, proactive, and experienced in the urgent/primary care field. If you are looking to take a clinical lead role in a team that prides itself on providing excellent acute care, we would love to hear from you.
Join us in making a meaningful impact on patient care and helping to shape the future of urgent care services in our community.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will develop, utilise, and maintain skills beyond the scope of normal Nurse/AHP Practice, such as advanced physical assessment, diagnostics, and prescribing. These will help you provide urgent care patients with what they need along with supporting the development of a large team of Band 7's in their own development.
You will lead on the strategic development of Trust-wide services in your specialist area, working with other strategic and clinical leads. Alongside this, you will lead and actively participate in education programmes designed to support other clinical staff in skills relating to the speciality.
An element of the role involves providing peer support to clinical staff working with urgent care patients. Insights from this helps you assist in the planning, co-ordinating and development of the service, including the evaluation of any newly implemented service plans.
You will be responsible for insuring that relevant legal and regulatory frameworks are acknowledged through local governance procedures. This involves being a competent research evidence consumer & to contribute to the establishment of protocols and guidelines for the development of the service. In line with this, you will also undertake and support research in the speciality.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the Job description and person specification for further information for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification/degree appropriate for ACP role
- Current Registration with NMC or HCPC
- Evidence of recent CPD in relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification (eg PGCert)
- Coaching or Mentoring qualification
Other Requirements
Desirable criteria
- Car Driver
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Completed / working towards MSc in Advanced Clinical practice or equivalent level of knowledge and experience
- Evidence of some study at level 7
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience in relevant clinical fields
- Leadership/Management experience at band 7 or above
- Experience of teaching and mentoring of staff at all levels across a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of involvement in clinical steering groups/taskforces at organisational level
- Experience of leading, planning and completing audit/research
Desirable criteria
- Experience of involvement in clinical or professional groups/networks at ICS or national level
- Post graduate leadership qualification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical skills in urgent care
- Delivery of evidenced based care for complex and deteriorating patient presentations
- Advanced communication skills, including presentation skills, adapted to needs of audience
- Leadership skills with ability to engage and deliver change through listening, negotiation and partnership working
- Ability to develop and sustain partnership working with individuals and teams across the organisation and local healthcare system
- Evidence of service development using quality improvement methodology
- Ability to manage high pressure situations and prioritise workload to ensure balance between the clinical and other elements of an advanced clinical practitioner role
Desirable criteria
- In-depth knowledge of recent NHSE standards in urgent care
- Quality Improvement qualification/training
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to work shift pattern over 7 days
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Independent/Supplementary Prescribing (HCPC V300) or Advanced Medicines Management module
- Physical Assessment
- Evidence of accredited study in minor injury
- Evidence of accredited study in minor illness
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Parnaby
- Job title
- General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917 246651
- Additional information
Nicki Leighton - Area Head of Nursing - 07825048849
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