Advanced Clinical Practitoner - Kent, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Kent, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Bexley Complex Case Team are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the team. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, providing clinical input and leadership within the multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients.

The service will operate Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

The post holder will be practising as a qualified ACP within the Complex Case Team, to provide patient-centred high-quality care.

This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice.

The post holder will support a new way of working by practising as a member of the Complex Case Team seeing patients in their usual place of residence, providing a rapid assessment service, specialising in frailty and elderly care, at the interface between primary and secondary care.

The post holder will be required to have a full UK driving license and access to a car.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.

Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent.

We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs.

We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.

This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind
We're Fair
We Listen
We Care

The post holder will be an autonomous ACP able to assess, interpret clinical findings, form a working diagnosis and implement a treatment plan.

When appropriate undertake evidence based independent prescribing when required in line with clinical assessment and reasoning.

To analyse and manage highly complex changing health and social care situations, to prioritise unscheduled calls at short notice due to sudden changes in clinical presentation or social care requirements.

Undertake joint working with other members of the Complex Case Team to maximise patient assessment and care planning

To ensure key performance Indicators and quality information is maintained and produced

Receive direct referrals from General Practitioners (GP's), 111, London Ambulance Service (LAS) Emergency Departments (ED), wider community services and work in conjunction with them to prevent unnecessary attendance.

Maintain effective multidisciplinary communication with other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that client's needs are met.