Advanced Clinical Practitioner

As our ACP, you will provide senior clinical expertise and leadership within the Evening and Night Service, supporting nurses and wider teams to safely manage increasingly complex patients in their own homes.

Undertake advanced clinical assessments, physical examinations and diagnostic reasoning for complex and urgent presentations.

Prescribe within your scope and use appropriate PGDs, request and interpret investigations, and develop treatment plans to support safe care at home.

Assess and manage patients at risk of hospital admission, supporting admission avoidance and safe escalation or transfer of care.

Provide expert clinical advice to community nursing colleagues and work collaboratively with GPs, urgent community response, ambulance, acute and wider health and social care services.

Initiate and review ReSPECT documentation where appropriate.

Provide clinical leadership, education, supervision and professional support to colleagues.

Contribute to service improvement, innovation, audit and research, ensuring opportunities support the four pillars of advanced practice alongside clinical responsibilities.

A role where you can really make a difference.

Evenings and nights can be challenging times for patients, families and professionals. Access to senior clinical decision-making can make the difference between a patient being admitted to hospital and receiving the right intervention safely at home.

We want our ACP to help us bridge that gap.

You will be able to bring advanced clinical expertise directly into the community, supporting nurses to manage complexity and providing an additional level of clinical assessment and decision-making when other services may be less accessible.

You will be encouraged to challenge traditional ways of working and help us develop pathways that provide responsive, safe and patient-centred care outside of hospital.

For full details of the duties and criteria please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

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Qualifications

Desirable: - Mentorship or teaching qualification / work place assessor; - Qualification(s) in long term conditions; - Leadership qualification

Experience

Knowledge

Skills and Abilities