Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Clinical Team - Hospital avoidance / Crisis response service
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR200-0524-A
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trem y Mor
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £51,706 - £58,210 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are excited to invite Advanced Practitioners with suitable relevant experience to join our Community Resource Team in Bridgend as the Senior Advanced Practitioner of the Acute Clinical Team.
The Acute Clinical Team is a rapid response service that aims to avoid admissions to hospital and respond to people experiencing a functional/frailty crisis at home. The service manages adults and the majority of service users are older adults living with frailty syndromes and multiple health problems.
The team has an established group of expert multi-professionals supported by a dedicated resource of Consultant Physicians. Our integration into CTMU Health Board provides exciting opportunities and challenges to establish the model of the service across the wider Health Board area.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the Acute Clinical Team, the rapid response, multi-disciplinary element of the CRT. They will both clinically and managerially lead the service and support the team of Advanced Practitioners to manage a caseload of acutely unwell and/or acutely functionally impaired patients.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will act as the initial senior clinical point of escalation, supporting and advising the team with clinical problems and when appropriate, respond to patients in their home to undertake clinical assessments and reviews. The Senior Advanced Practitioner will maintain a close relationship with the Consultant Physicians to safely manage the caseload.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will also act as the overall manager for the ACT and CRT Nursing, providing line management to senior staff, supporting operational leaders in staff management and working with the wider team of senior staff and managers throughout the CRT to co-ordinate the overall provision of the CRT services.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will also need to engage in service design projects, workshops, network with multiple key stakeholders throughout the health service, private and education sectors to further practice development and push the agenda for growing and developing this intermediate care service. Growing awareness of the service to ensure good service uptake and evidencing the effectiveness of the service to inform the future business plan and growth of the service.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Please see the attached Job Description, Technical Document and draft Scope of Practice to learn more about what this post entails. The draft Scope of Practice will be completed with the successful candidate upon their appointment in to post where their individual skills, abilities and strengths can be reflected in the document.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration (NMC, HCPC)
- Level 7 level Education (Masters) relevent to area of practice
- Advanced Specialist Knowledge of patient pathways
- Advanced theoretical knowledge and practical experience to carry out clinical consultation and/or examination relevant to area of practice.
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- Evidence of maintaining an Advanced Practice Portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Management/Leadership qualification or possess equivalent skills and experience
Experiance
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration clinical experience in advanced practice within speciality area.
- Evidence of performing at Advanced Level of Practice.
- Proven track record of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Clinical skills competence for environment/ setting.
- Demonstrate leadership/ supervision experience.
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel in a timely manner throughout the organisation.
- Able to work hours flexibly.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable at level 1 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle King
- Job title
- Integrated Service Manager - CRT Bridgend
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 815888
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