Extended Clinical Practitioner (Nurse or AHP) inBasingstoke inBasingstoke PUBLISHED
TUE 19 NOV 2024
The position requires strong clinical judgment, analytical skills, and the ability to adapt to dynamic healthcare environments. The ECP will engage with patients and their families, undertake comprehensive assessments, and implement complex interventions while maintaining accountability for care delivered by the team. The role involves flexible working hours, including at least one weekend shift per month, as the service operates 365 days a year from 0800 to 2000.
We are seeking a motivated Extended Clinical Practitioner (ECP), Nurse or AHP to join our Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Frailty Virtual Ward (VW) team delivering care to patients closer to home and preventing avoidable hospital admission across North Hampshire. The ECP will deliver specialist practice in UCR working closely alongside the Consultant Practitioner, Senior Clinical Practitioner, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Trainee ACP's and other ECP's supporting the delivery of care in the home settings of our population. The ECP will develop strong working relationships with the wider systems teams which may include community geriatrician, specialist doctor, GPs, and other MDT colleagues.
UCR focuses on preventing avoidable hospital admissions for patients with acute ill health conditions by providing advanced clinical assessments that place the person at the core, within 2 hours of referral. This includes implementation of treatment and appropriate monitoring whilst in crisis. The frailty virtual ward pathway supports patients to receive ongoing care that they may receive in hospital and prevents them from deterioration that would require an admission.
The service operates days a week, 365 days a year.
We are happy to discuss flexible working but would expect as a minimum working one weekend in four.
To provide a high standard of complex, enhanced care for patients, using enhanced levels of clinical judgement, skills and knowledge. Extended Clinical Practitioners will consult with patients, their family, carers and the multi-professional team to undertake assessments of patient need and devise and evaluate complex care plans related to their field of expertise. They critically evaluate and analyse clinical problems using their expertise and clinical knowledge, seeking out and applying relevant evidence, enhanced clinical assessments, diagnostics, interventions, and equipment to make clinical decisions.
Extended Clinical Practitioners deliver complex clinical care in the context of continual change, challenging environments, different models of care delivery, innovation and rapidly evolving technologies using critical analysis and their underpinning knowledge to manage complex interventions. They recognise and work within the boundaries of their practice, knowing when and who to refer patients to. They may delegate work to other members of the multidisciplinary team and take accountability for the delegated activity.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
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