Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Job overview

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams.  They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations.

Main duties of the job

• Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct.  The postholder will be responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework.
• Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).
• Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.
• Participate and lead team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.

Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Relationships

To establish effective working relation with the following:

• Staff within the professional group
• Clinical Team Leaders
• Service Managers
• Heads of Service/General Managers
• Clinical and Divisional Directors
• GP’s
• Local Authority partners
• Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies
• Care Home Managers
• Social Care