Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Essential

• Advanced clinical assessment.
• Clinical decision making.
• Symptom management.
• Risk assessment - able to identify, assess and manage clinical risk.
• Diagnostics -able to appropriately use clinical investigations and diagnostic information to support assessment and management while recognising the limitations of investigations in advanced illness.
• Evidence of influencing motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
• Demonstrate self, staff and patient management competencies
• Skills for analysis of service delivery, risks and options for improvement.
• Experience of implementing change in clinical practice or service delivery to improve the quality of patient care.
• Ability to problem solve with a strong solution-focussed approach
• Highly developed clinical judgement in holistic assessment of patient needs.
• Emotional resilience

Desirable

• Experience of specialist palliative care emergencies and complex pharmacological management.
• Experience of point-of-care diagnostics or community-based investigations.
• Experience of complex best-interest decision-making.

Essential

• Able to demonstrate LOROS Values and Behaviours.
• Emotional resilience
• Act as a role model within the hospice and wider health and social care community
• Adaptable and flexible dependent on work priorities
• Keen to learn new skills and improve knowledge base
• Able to promote LOROS and its services to external stakeholders
• Evidence of putting research into practice

Essential

• Awareness of current national and local agendas in health and social care.
• Demonstration of high-level knowledge of multi-agency working i.e. housing, social services, independent sector etc
• Knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance
• Quality improvement and change management
• Demonstrate the ability to work in a highly demanding environment.
• Teaching and mentorship clinical setting.
• Ability to work independently and make autonomous clinical decision within own area of competence.
• Knowledge of community profiling and health needs assessment to respond to community needs
• High level communication skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of audit and research and experience of analysing findings to improve practice.
• Clinical supervisor and ability to reflect on own practice.

Desirable

• Knowledge and implementation of research
• Development and implementation of protocols and clinical guidelines
• Working with community development initiatives

Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification.
• Registered General Nurse or Paramedic.
• Primary degree.
• Master's degree in Advanced Practice and or Palliative Care.
• Non-medical Prescriber V300.
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics modules if not part of Masters qualifications.

Essential

• Extensive post qualification experience
• Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice speciality
• Supervision experience and the ability to support trainee practitioners in their development and career progression.
• Ability to work autonomously at advanced practice level and make expert clinical decisions to support the development of services and inform practice.
• Ability and evidence to lead on related research and audit in relation to the development of advanced practice.
• Communication of difficult messages to patients and families.
• Evidence of multi-agency or professional working
• Negotiation and conflict management skills within the context of multi-agency working.
• Demonstrates efficient experience in leadership of team/s in the context of multi-agency working

Desirable

• Post qualification experience in Specialist Palliative Care
• Experience of leading patient involvement and patient feedback
• Relevant previous experience of working at an advanced clinical level.
• Recent experience in primary and or community setting
• Experience of resource management

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Car driver with access to a car as the post holder will be required to travel to fulfil the full requirements of the role.
• Ability to work flexibly.
• Excellent organisation skills, show the ability to plan and organise
• workload and facilitate learning events.
• Positive role model.
• Proficient IT skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including negotiation, influencing and presentation.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
• Self-management and motivation skills.
• Confidence to challenge traditional practice and persistence to address difficult issues.
• Able to work and make decisions autonomously and take initiative.