Job overview

Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) / Band 7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP).

A sensational opportunity has arisen to join a well-established award-winning, innovative, and dynamic Respiratory Service.

We are on a journey expanding our successful teams to enhance the Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward and have secured new funding. 

This post is an opportunity not to be missed.

We welcome applications from ACP, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, or a Trainee ACP to work within this dynamic and progressive team. The focus of the role is pivotal to the development of the acute respiratory virtual ward, providing expert respiratory care to patients on presentation to hospital, during their admission or in their usual place of care on the virtual ward. The role will work closely with a wider MDT and specialist teams including other virtual ward services.

We are looking for someone who is highly skilled and knowledgeable in complex respiratory care and is committed to delivering and ensuring others deliver an excellent, evidence-based service. As part of the senior team, you will liaise with a variety of key stakeholders including primary care.

Main duties of the job

The Virtual Ward is an exciting new service offering home based care to patients who would otherwise occupy a hospital bed. The care is delivered by a specialist workforce using face to face assessments and an integrated pathway to safely support patients in their own home.

The developing Virtual Ward is looking at technology to assist with virtual assessment and monitoring to support the specialist in caring for people at home. Working closely with other regional experts, you will work both independently and as part of the supportive multi-Disciplinary team; providing care that is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation. 

This post will be predominantly based at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough the role will be to assess, diagnose and implement a treatment plan for patients with respiratory illness, facilitating virtual ward care where appropriate and desired. Integration into the wider respiratory team is essential, therefore, some time will be spent working from community sites and facilitating domiciliary care (approximately 4 shifts per month).

The role requires flexibility in working patterns and is planned to cover a 7-day service in the future. 

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available. 

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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