Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Leominster, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Leominster, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

We are the Leominster Community Hospital, a 26-bedded facility which provides assessment, care and treatment to sub-acute patients and/or those requiring inpatient rehabilitation.

Providing either a step-down from the acute hospital or step up patients from the local community, we always aim to discharge our patients in a timely manner and to the right destination.

Multidisciplinary working is key to our service and we pride ourselves in being hard-working and committed.

We are transforming our model of care and are excited to add 2 Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP) to the team and skill-mix.

We are seeking to recruit 2 fully qualified colleagues who share our passion for caring for people, strive towards excellence in hospital care and with a keen interest in service development and quality improvement.

The ACP role is at the forefront of Acute and Community Medicine with non-medical practitioner's crossing professional boundaries, undertaking traditional medical roles and leading the way for inter-professional practice.

As the ACP you will be able to assess and treat varied clinical cases. Your advanced communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills will be used to assess and provide on-going patient care.

To help you deliver outstanding care, you will be working alongside colleagues in the acute frailty team to support education, clinical practice and professional development through rotation across the acute frailty services.

Deliver and participate in the clinical care of patients within community hospital settings.

Prioritise health needs and intervene appropriately.

To be professionally and legally accountable for all work undertaken.

To practice at an advanced level of professional autonomy and accountability that is within the Trust's policies and Professional Codes of Conduct.

Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive clinical nursing assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills.

To appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat a wide range of medical patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated, undiagnosed and complex presentations.

Ensure patients are informed and consent is gained prior to treatment, investigation and management, as appropriate.

Take responsibility for the management of patients within own caseload and supervision/development of junior members of the multi-professional team.

Is able to identify the need for appropriate diagnostic tests and interpret the results Practice autonomously as an ACP using collaborative and independent judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement, manage, and evaluate clinical nursing and medical care in the management of patients.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:
"The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.