Advanced Clinical Practitioner inWakefield inWakefield PUBLISHED TUE 14 JAN 2025

An exciting position has arisen at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. Do you want to be part of a team who will be delivering novel and innovative ways of working ?Do you want to help make a real difference to the health and wellbeing of the local community?

This post is for a qualified ACP with a passion for delivering care within the community. You will bring your clinical expertise to a wider multidisciplinary team. You will be an experienced, registered health and care practitioner and have a high degree of autonomy and complex decision-making skills. This is underpinned by a masters level that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competence. Clinical support and supervision are available for all staff.

Advanced clinical practice embodies the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with individuals, families, and carers. It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance peoples experience and improve outcomes.

If you would like any further information please contact Kelly Haigh, via who can arrange a convenient time for a conversation with Andrea Parkin, Assistant Director of Nursing and Quality MYTT.

Previous applicants need not apply.

You will be able to expertly manage urgent community referrals, from our GPs, Hospital and Home and community nurse colleagues. You will manage these cohort(s) of patients and presenting complaints, providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care, demonstrating safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care evidence-based care.

To be a clinical expert and senior clinician in the field of Adult Community Care. To work with the senior leadership, ACPs and wider team to continually improve the quality of care provided including the continuation of service improvement to demonstrate better outcomes for our patients.

The successful applicant will need to share the values of Mid Yorkshire Teaching Trust and work as part of a large multi-disciplinary team including GPs, Hospital specialty teams, Community Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, Allied Health Professionals and Administrators.

You will be passionate about making a difference for people, and working with them in the communities where they live. You will need to have an exceptional understanding of the positive impact of effective teamwork across the Division and organisation.

About us

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will:

• Manage their own caseload of patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed illness.
• Undertake audit within the clinical setting to develop services.
• Provide formal and informal teaching, support, and clinical supervision to nursing staff and junior medical staff.
• Ensure maintenance of clinical excellence.
• Support the wider multidisciplinary team, undertaking independent comprehensive assessment and management of patients to incorporate physiological, psychological, and pharmacological considerations, making multifaceted complex clinical decisions regarding patient management and clinical outcomes, including, where appropriate, the discharging patients from the service when treatment is complete/optimum outcome is achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• To be competent in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions underpinned by extensive knowledge of a range of chronic and acute conditions.
• To be competent in providing an initial clinical diagnosis and in the decision to refer to an appropriate speciality.
• To be competent in the ability to discharge patients following appropriate assessment and treatment.
• To be competent in the initial immediate assessment and treatment of patients with a range of life-threatening presentations such as cardiac arrest and acute major illness.
• V300 programme Supplementary and Independent Prescriber, you will be a safe and competent independent and supplementary (non-medical) prescriber of medicines (from the British National Formulary).
• To be able to see, treat and refer appropriately, a broad range of patients with acute and chronic illnesses as an autonomous practitioner.
• Administration of medicines, e.g. in line with NMC Guidance and Trust Policy.
• Demonstrate own personal development with self-directed learning and identifying and accessing internal and external development opportunities, as per individual advanced practice portfolio.
• Autonomous decision-making including judgments involving complex facts or situations which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options in relation to the care/ management needs of the patients on a day-to-day basis within the clinical environment.
• Conduct all system clinical assessments, examinations, and investigations to identify abnormalities and make diagnoses and administer a comprehensive and appropriate level of care.
• Use of advanced clinical skills and autonomous judgement to prescribe drug treatments for patients following interpretation of clinical findings through requested bloods and investigations across several broad and varied clinical fields.
• Use best practice, analyse evidence-based practice, use of benchmarking to inform clinical practice.
• Provide detailed and transparent reports of workload, outcomes, and recommendations for future developments; demonstrated in advanced practice portfolio this should include case-based discussions, multi-source feedback, etc.
• Be accountable for the direct delivery and implementation of clinical care on a day-to-day basis across the full spectrum of illnesses and therapy management.
• Provide personal care plans to patients and develop, implement, and evaluate care including independently prescribed medications, monitoring therapeutic programmes, and providing health education and promotion.
• Be proactive in developing new ways of working, such as ACP led initiatives to increase the quality of the patient journey.
• Provide health education and advice to patients.
• Be a safe and competent non-Medical Prescriber-providing responsible prescribing and adapting medication therapies to meet the needs of patients.