Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

Job Title: Advanced Clinical Practitioner -- Registered Adult Nurse, AHP or ECP

Salary band: Band 8a

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week (part-time considered).

Location: One Team locality hub (Totton/Avon Valley) -with the ability to work flexibly across sites subject to service needs.

This is a new and exciting opportunity to work in the community-based Frailty Support Service and help to develop and deliver our urgent community response and virtual ward service. We are recruiting a Band 8a Advanced Frailty Practitioner, who will be a Registered Adult Nurse, AHP or ECP with an interest in frailty. You will provide clinical and team leadership and work across the 4 pillars of advanced clinical practice.

The Frailty Support Team service within Southern Health provides a unique model of care nationally. We support acutely unwell adults who are experiencing a sudden decompensation in physical, psychological, or social well being in their own homes. Our primary aim is to provide first class health care in the home, giving our service users the choice to remain at home and recover more quickly.

We work as One Team with our community therapist, mental health, and nursing teams as well as GPs to offer tailored personalised care for our patients in each locality hub.

The Team is truly multi-professional, we currently have Consultant Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Ambulance Technicians, Paramedics, Apprentice Nurses, GP's, Geriatricians and Administrators.

Main duties of the job

While we all work to our core strengths and abilities, we also help each other to develop new skills and acquire new knowledge that enables us to provide truly holistic patient centred care.

While the majority of working days will be spent in your usual base, there is some requirement to work flexibly from time to time from our other bases. There are five in total, located in Eastleigh, Totton (Southampton), Fordingbridge, Romsey and Lymington. We provide a service to our patients 7 days a week between the hours of 08:00 and 20:00 and weekends are worked in rotation.

Successful applicants will receive a comprehensive induction into the team and the trust. We have regular inhouse training sessions and access to a wealth of internal training and external courses and conferences to maintain your clinical skills and develop you academically. There is the opportunity to undertake MSc modules leading to becoming an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

The team has service improvement and development embedded at its very core! As a team member you will be encouraged to help us shape and develop the services that we provide to our patients and their families.

If you think this opportunity could be the right one for your next step, please get in touch! Informal visits are strongly encouraged.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Hub - Totton

1 High Street, Totton

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 9HL

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Hub - Totton

1 High Street, Totton

Southampton

Hampshire

SO40 9HL

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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