Acute Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

Full time 37.5 hours per week. Permanent post.

We are looking for a motivated health care professional to join our expanding team of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in Acute Medicine at the Royal Bolton Hospital. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work alongside a well-established and highly skilled team of eleven Advanced Clinical Practitioners and two trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners who provide a seven day service to the Acute Assessment unit Unit and rotate across all areas of Acute Medicine. This is a busy and dynamic team who excel in delivering high quality patient-centred care.

This is a fulltime post (37.5hrs/week) with a salary at 8a. Please note that non-medical prescribing is a requirement for this post.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will ideally have experience of working within an adult acute or urgent care division, and possess knowledge and a range of skills that cover all aspects of Acute Medicine. They will need to show a willingness and aptitude to learn and develop. They will need to be self-motivated with a desire to improve patient care through application of advanced clinical skills and knowledge, as well as leadership, education and research skills. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will be supported with clinical supervision from an allocated medical consultant mentor and Lead ACP in Acute Medicine, and have access to continuing professional development that reflects all four domains of advanced practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will assess, diagnose, treat and make the decision to admit or discharge adult patients, safely ensuring appropriate advice, health education and referral to appropriate services or other members of the MDT under minimal supervision from the Acute Medicine consultant medical team.
• Be able to manage their own caseload in response to unpredictable patterns of work.
• Act as a clinical expert in patient care, able to make high level clinical decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.
• Facilitates ‘expert’ inter-professional care for the ill patient and their dependants by direction, supervision and example; and maintenance of all records.
• Able to provide advanced clinical skills and knowledge to medical and nursing staff within the acute medicine and urgent care division.
• Initiates, undertakes and evaluate research and audit.
• Develops and deliver educational programmes for staff locally and will work with Advanced Clinical Practitioners locally/nationally to develop advanced nursing practice.
• Ordering and interpreting radiological imaging is an integral part of the role.
• This a designated non–medical prescribing position.
• It is anticipated that 80% of the time will be spent in the clinical area with 20% non-clinical time relating to the other three pillars of advanced practice.