In this full-time role, the Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner will engage in flexible working hours, including weekends, while utilizing evidence-based practices to facilitate patients' journeys through the healthcare system. Responsibilities also include providing leadership, contributing to the education of the multidisciplinary team, and participating in clinical audits and quality improvement projects. Candidates must demonstrate independent clinical judgment and collaborate effectively within various departments, ultimately striving to enhance the quality of care and support innovative service development within the Frailty unit.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Frailty team which is expanding and developing to cover a brand-new Frailty Unit and linking with community teams to support a virtual ward. The candidate must have a passion for frailty, be proactive and ideally have experience in caring for frail, elderly patients.
Working as part of a Multi disciplinary team across the acute trust and liaising with our community colleagues, the successful candidate should strive to meet the highly complex needs of our patients. This is a partnership which demands we recruit original thinkers committed to providing high quality, safe care in the right place at the right time.
The post holder will be part of the team responsible for completing holistic, integrated, and personalised care plans to ensure positive and robust outcomes for the patient. The post holder will be fundamental to ensure consistent delivery of the service and maintain communication in a joined up clinical approach across secondary and community care. The rapid expansion of the frailty unit offers the opportunity to join a service that is innovative and growing, and as the service develops the referral sources and specialities are expected to broaden further.
As a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be expected to work alongside the medical and nursing teams to promote the delivery of a high standard of patient cantered care within a supported environment. Following successful completion of the MSc, the applicant will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the immediate care and subsequent management of the adult patient, liaising and reporting to middle grade medical staff. Utilising specialised clinical and theoretical knowledge, the ACP will assess the health status of the patient through complete physical examination, medical history and psychosocial history demonstrating a systematic and thorough approach toward problem solving. Once qualified, the successful candidate will support in the provision of specialist education and training to facilitate the development of other members of the multidisciplinary team. Other key areas of the role include leading the development of clinical services and enhanced practice within the specialist field, working with clinical colleagues to develop and review both medical and nursing protocols, guidelines and standards of care through the process of clinical audit and quality improvement projects.
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The post is full time position that requires flexibility in working, with rotation to weekends as part of an agreed rota with other members of the ACP team.
The post holder will perform a valid assessment of patients presenting in the acute care setting. The individual will utilise theoretical knowledge, clinical skills and expertise to progress decision-making and develop plans of care to facilitate the patient journey. This will occur in collaboration and discussion with the multi-disciplinary team in supported environment.
The post holder will utilise an evidence-based approach to the management of acute patients and will be expected to provide care and make clinical decisions in accordance with agreed clinical pathways of care and proficiency of own skill set. This will also include history taking, examination and investigation skills to timely and safely progress the patients journey.
The post holder will contribute to the education and training of the multidisciplinary team and will engage in clinical supervision, self-reflection, research/audit and quality initiatives that contribute to the improvement of care for adults presenting to MCHFT. Multi-disciplinary collaboration and working will be expected using communication skills to enhance both the service and its sustainable delivery.
Frailty ACP:
The Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (TACP) will work within agreed protocols and guidelines exercising independent judgement in history taking, clinical examination, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a diverse and undetermined caseload of patients with emergency presentations, who may have highly complex acute presentations and frailty syndromes.
You will be expected to provide inspirational and visible clinical leadership for the frailty team to the nursing and medical teams working within the Emergency Department, Ambulatory Care Unit and Acute Medical Unit.
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