Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Job overview

Suitable for someone who has front line experience of using advanced assessment skills especially in determining the nature and severity of mental illness/health (in older adult/ All adults) and differentiation between physical and mental health symptoms and conditions. The role will have a 75%-90% clinical component and 10%-25% related to appraisal, clinical audit, teaching, leadership/ management, continuous professional development and research.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for a defined service/department.
• Lead on ensuring consistent delivery of evidence based, safe and effective nursing care.
• Provide highly specialised advice to nursing teams, wider professional colleagues e.g. social care, therapies, to ensure high standards of direct care delivery.
• Take a key role in service review and/or development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Provide specialist education and training to own profession and/or multidisciplinary staff. * See JD for detailed information on main duties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Job Responsibilities (Refer JD for detailed information)

• Undertake advanced assessment, diagnosis, care planning and treatment for people with complex physical and mental health needs.
• Prescribe, monitor and review medicines and other interventions within professional and governance requirements.
• Identify and manage clinical risks, respond to deterioration and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Work with service users, carers, multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to deliver coordinated, person-centred care.
• Provide clinical leadership, expert advice, supervision, education and support to staff and learners.
• Lead and contribute to service development, quality improvement, audit, research and evidence-based practice.
• Participate in incident reporting and PSIRF processes, applying learning to improve quality and safety.
• Maintain professional standards, governance requirements and continuing professional development across the four pillars of advanced practice.

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.