Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Telephone Triage

Job overview

Team SWASfT are seeking highly motivated ACPs with an appetite for remote assessment and driving quality to join us across our Emergency Operations Centre and Specialist Practice teams. Following the successful roll out of our sessional / bank ACPs we are now looking to increase ACP cover across the full working week.

The role has built in supporting professional activity time, fully supporting you in developing within all four pillars of Advanced Practice where you commit to a contract of no less than 18.75 hours each week.

The key ambition of the role is to support SWASfT in achieving its ambitious Hear and Treat agenda whilst driving quality across the team.

We currently have opportunities for clinicians to work within our EOCs based in Exeter or Bristol or from a remote triage capable ambulance station across Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, BNSSG, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. Please include your preference within your supporting statement.

This is an on-site role and we do not offer remote working options.

*Please note the banding for this role is indicative pending job evaluation*

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role include:

• ·         Telephone consultations directly with patients, relatives and/or their carers’.
• ·         Reviewing, triaging and reprioritising of 999 calls.
• ·         Closing incidents without deploying an ambulance resource.
• ·         Provision of senior clinical advice to EOC and patient facing colleagues.
• ·         Senior clinical visibility.
• ·         Clinical audit and case review.*
• ·         Education and peer supervision.*

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information please see job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.