Advanced Complex Care Practitioner - Virtual Ward

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic individual to join the Virtual Frailty Ward as an Advanced Complex Care Practitioner, providing care across Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale. We are looking for a skilled, organised, and dynamic Nurse - AHP- with community experience to recruit as an Advanced Complex Care Practitioner (ACCP). You will need to be hard-working, patient focused, passionate, driven, with a problem-solving approach to patient and team management.

You will work in an integrated multidisciplinary team, including community nursing, therapies, also working closely with acute care, social care, GPs and voluntary sector colleagues to deliver individualised, safe and effective, high-quality care at home.

The post holder will proactively identify service users’ needs, be able to quickly identify a deteriorating patient, have knowledge and experience of caring for those with complex long-term conditions within their home environment understanding the experiences of patients and their families. With the overall aim of supporting patients to remain at home or in their normal place of residence, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions. Also facilitating early discharge where patients have been hospitalised.

You will work as an autonomous practitioner and will be confident working collaboratively with colleagues across a wide range of professions and organisations.

Main duties of the job

Come and join our Virtual Ward community integrated team delivering our vision to improve health and wellbeing in our local community through high-quality, person-centred care. There will be an excellent induction program and clinical supervision support. You will be encouraged to develop expert skills in the area in order to take a lead role in clinical practice issues, raising the profile of the service and offering specialist advice to planning and service development teams in order to assist in the implementation of service improvements.

ACCPs manage a complex caseload of service users providing:

• Robust clinical triage identifying appropriate referrals from across multiple partner organisations and through agreed clinical diversionary pathways.
• Advanced holistic clinical assessments, person-centred care plans, treatment escalation plans, and complex treatment in the community setting.
• Coordination of the integrated multidisciplinary team and liaison with partners in wider health, social care and voluntary sector to support admission avoidance where clinically safe
• Assist the service user to navigate health and care systems to achieve successful outcomes
• Support technology focused patient care, where appropriate for patient care to be safely and effectively at home

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regard to this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

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.