Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job overview

Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.

We are recruiting two Advanced Clinical Practitioners to provide expert clinical management for patients requiring care within the assigned care setting. One position will cover East Kent and the second position will cover North Kent.

You will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, which comprises of Nurses, Doctors, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and a range of non-registered health care roles. You will work within a defined scope of practice and to agreed clinical standards applied within the local setting.

The role will be multi factorial, including clinical assessment, formulation, non-medical prescribing and holistic treatments and will improve the quality of and access to health care provision and strengthen professional leadership, supporting the development and practice of junior clinicians.

The role will involve inter agency working.

The role will be structured around four core functions:

• Expert practice with a minimum clinical focus of 70%
• Professional leadership and consultancy
• Education, training and development
• Practice and service development, audit and evaluation

The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Main duties of the job

• Carry out and coordinate comprehensive, systematic holistic assessments which take account of relevant mental, physical, social, cultural, psychological, spiritual, and environmental factors, in partnership with service user and others through interaction, observation and measurement.
• Work collaboratively with other disciplines, service user and their carers to formulate and agree a holistic person-centred care plan that addresses the needs identified through assessment.
• Deliver and evaluate safe, person centred care in partnership with the service user and their carers to support recovery.
• Act as a clinical leader supporting the development of best practice in line with trust policy and NICE guidance.
• Facilitate and review approved Quality Improvement initiatives within the care setting

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.

At KMMH, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.