Job summary
Are you a qualified or aspiring Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) ready for an exciting new challenge?
As we transform our teams we have embraced a revised skill mix creating a blended medical model to include ACPs, Doctors and Pharmacists. Stroud and Vale Hospital (in Dursley) collectively have 58 beds, focusing on providing sub-acute recovery, rehabilitation, frailty assessment and management and palliative / end of life care, along with specialist stroke rehabilitation at the Vale hospital.
It's the perfect time to join our journey as we shift our Community Hospitals up a gear and embrace extended roles; diversifying the skill mix, thus creating a tapestry medical cover approach, improving our MDT offer.
The successful candidate will be a fully qualified ACP or working towards this, accountable for the leadership, development, improvement, and management of patients within the community hospital inpatient wards, ensuring the highest standards of patient care is delivered, 7 days a week. You will have consolidated experience in the treatment of long term conditions, frailty and palliation. Using critical thinking, you will make high level clinical decisions, informed by history taking, diagnostics, assessment and treatment skills. You will be supported and supervised by senior doctor input. We will consider applications from those who have commenced the ACP pathway and will support completion of the programme, in line with the four pillars of advanced practice.
Main duties of the job
You will need to be a dynamic ACP having completed or currently undertaking an Advanced Clinical Practice Masters programme awarded by a University with Health Education England Centre for Advanced Practice accreditation and holding a HEE digital badge
Or an established ACP with evidence of an Advanced Clinical Practice Masters programme willing to commit to progressing through the Health Education England Centre for Advanced Practice e-Portfolio (supported) route to gain HEE AP accreditation and be awarded a HEE digital badge ePortfolio (supported) Route - Advanced Practice (hee.nhs.uk)
- You will provide clinical support for the inpatient wards in Stroud and Vale community hospitals
- You will be responsible and accountable for the leadership, development, improvement, and management of services within own defined clinical areas to ensure the highest standards of patient care is delivered in the most efficient and effective way across a 24 hour period, 7 days a week
- Act as an autonomous Practitioner in accordance with the 2017 HEE AP Framework providing high quality, individualised clinical management for patients using advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills to determine and initiate changes to treatment as necessary.
About us
Please note, work station assessments will be undertaken with interviews.
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.
Our Staff Survey results showed people at our Trust feel they are engaged, part of a team and work for a compassionate and inclusive organisation.
Our overall scores were better than average in eight of nine themes and level in one - the best overall results for a community, mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the south west and first equal amongst all sector NHS providers within the region too.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Registered practitioner with a Statutory Regulated professional body (e.g. NMC / HCPC) with significant post-registration experience relevant to role.
- Masters in Advanced Practice or evidence to support Professional clinical knowledge that covers all 4 pillars (as above) of the Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (essential to include physical assessment and physiological reasoning qualifications as Masters level). Applications will be considered from those currently completing these qualifications.
- Recognised teaching qualification or relevant experience
Desirable
- Non-Medical prescribing or working towards essential.
NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience working with frail, elderly and or patients with dementia which will include adults from the age of 18 years
- Managerial and clinical leadership experience within a large multidisciplinary organisation.
- Experience of successfully leading clinical teams
- Experience of working with external agencies for the effective delivery of services
- Experience of leading Quality Improvement programmes
Desirable
- Experience working in urgent/acute care in a community setting
- Experience working in urgent/acute care in a community setting
- Understanding of working in a political environment.
- Detailed working knowledge of how their health community operate and how they fit into the health and social care community
- Experience in research activity
- Ability to use data to triangulate other information as part of narrative and demonstration of compliance
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Registered practitioner with a Statutory Regulated professional body (e.g. NMC / HCPC) with significant post-registration experience relevant to role.
- Masters in Advanced Practice or evidence to support Professional clinical knowledge that covers all 4 pillars (as above) of the Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (essential to include physical assessment and physiological reasoning qualifications as Masters level). Applications will be considered from those currently completing these qualifications.
- Recognised teaching qualification or relevant experience
Desirable
- Non-Medical prescribing or working towards essential.
NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience working with frail, elderly and or patients with dementia which will include adults from the age of 18 years
- Managerial and clinical leadership experience within a large multidisciplinary organisation.
- Experience of successfully leading clinical teams
- Experience of working with external agencies for the effective delivery of services
- Experience of leading Quality Improvement programmes
Desirable
- Experience working in urgent/acute care in a community setting
- Experience working in urgent/acute care in a community setting
- Understanding of working in a political environment.
- Detailed working knowledge of how their health community operate and how they fit into the health and social care community
- Experience in research activity
- Ability to use data to triangulate other information as part of narrative and demonstration of compliance
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
