Advanced Practitioner - Oldham, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

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Oldham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arose for a qualified Advanced Practitioner to join the Integrated Respiratory Service (PLS) at Oldham Care Organisation.

The post holder will take a lead role in the advanced clinical assessment and treatment of a diverse and undetermined caseload of patients, who may have highly complex and/or chronic presentation within the respiratory specilaity.

They will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated, and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. The post holder will provide clinical expertise for developing and enhancing the service. This will be done in collaboration with healthcare colleagues.

They will ensure that evidence based practice is inherent in all aspects of care and treatment and ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the clinical area, Trust and externally as appropriate.

Your role will include
- in reach and support for identifying respiratory patients for the hospital and care at home service, clinical triage of referrals. OPD general resp and sub
- specialty clinics as well as service development. you will also be the lead for the newly qualified and tACP's within the team.

Undertake a significant clinical caseload to an advanced professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.
Develop an extended scope of practice beyond their primary profession
Triage referrals either independently or with medical colleagues and make onward referrals
Support redesign of the flow of patient referrals from Primary care to secondary care

The role of the Oldham integrated respiratory Service is to ensure that respiratory people in a 'crisis situation' receive expert, responsive, and safe care in a place closest to home, that best meets their needs.

As the lead ACP for the service, you will ensure that patients are identified in A&E, AMU and as in patients providing care as below:

Specialised and Autonomous Clinical assessment, treatment, advice, and guidance as indicated by clinical / service need or demand.
The monitoring and maintaining of standards of practice and patient care through a range of quality improvement activities

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world's first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts.

Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital.

As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.