Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is a newly created substantive opportunity at SWBH Department of Elderly Care Medicine.

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you will form part of the frailty intervention team (FIT), working collaboratively with the MDT (Elderly care, acute/emergency medicine, therapies, general practice, social care and intermediate care) to meet the needs of patients from our local population.

As an ACP in this team, you will have a fundamental role in the delivery, leadership and expansion of our local frailty service.

With the completion of our new hospital (MMUH) imminent, we recognise the importance of ongoing professional development and the critical role ACPs will have in our future services.

FIT Statement:
The frailty service aims to provide a proactive and person-centred approach to older people living with frailty.

We believe that frailty can be improved, and that frailty care needs to be individualised, multidisciplinary led and have a 'home first' mind-set.

We aim to drive collaborative commissioning and teamwork across organisational boundaries to ensure care is easily accessible, sustained, co-ordinated and robust - with the individual's needs and wishes at the very heart of the decision making process.

We believe that care should start and end in the individual's home wherever possible, and that managing frailty is everyone's business.

Key Responsibilities:

Undertake comprehensive clinical assessment of a patient's condition and need advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
Deliver and participate in the clinical care of Frail and complex patients who present at the AMU, ED or SDEC Unit through the (FIT)
Appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
Provide accurate and effective clinical handovers
Provide professional leadership and support within a multidisciplinary team
Work autonomously in recognised situations
Critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise different sources of information for the purpose of assessing and managing frailty
Understand the professional accountability and legal frameworks for advanced practice
Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.
Provide clinical supervision, identifying training and development needs, developing and implementing strategies to facilitate knowledge skills advancement.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff.

Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives: