Job summary
This is a newly created substantive opportunity at SWBH Department of Elderly Care Medicine. As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP), you will form part of the frailty intervention team (FIT), working collaboratively with the MDT (Elderly care, acute/emergency medicine, therapies, general practice, social care and intermediate care) to meet the needs of patients from our local population. As an ACP in this team, you will have a fundamental role in the delivery, leadership and expansion of our local frailty service. With the completion of our new hospital (MMUH) imminent, we recognise the importance of ongoing professional development and the critical role ACPs will have in our future services.
FIT Statement: The frailty service aims to provide a proactive and person-centred approach to older people living with frailty. We believe that frailty can be improved, and that frailty care needs to be individualised, multidisciplinary led and have a 'home first' mind-set. We aim to drive collaborative commissioning and teamwork across organisational boundaries to ensure care is easily accessible, sustained, co-ordinated and robust - with the individual's needs and wishes at the very heart of the decision making process. We believe that care should start and end in the individual's home wherever possible, and that managing frailty is everyone's business.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake comprehensive clinical assessment of a patient's condition and need advanced and comprehensive health assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
- Deliver and participate in the clinical care of Frail and complex patients who present at the AMU, ED or SDEC Unit through the (FIT)
- Appropriately assess, examine, investigate, diagnose and treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
- Provide accurate and effective clinical handovers
- Provide professional leadership and support within a multidisciplinary team
- Work autonomously in recognised situations
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge across a range of subject areas relevant to the field of frailty within an emergency and acute care setting
- Critically analyse, evaluate and synthesise different sources of information for the purpose of assessing and managing frailty
- Apply the principles of therapeutics and safe prescribing
- Understand the professional accountability and legal frameworks for advanced practice
- Apply the principles of evidenced based practice to the management of a frail older adult
- Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.
- Provide clinical supervision, identifying training and development needs, developing and implementing strategies to facilitate knowledge skills advancement.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.
We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.
Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.
Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.
We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose.When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it.Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for the main duties and responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for the main duties and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MSc level qualification in advanced clinical practice
- First level registration with the NMC or appropriate allied health professional governing body
- Independent Prescriber qualification
Desirable
- Chronic Disease Management ALS/ILS
- Post-Graduate qualification in any relevant areas of the 4 pillars of ACP.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an ACP in primary care, community care or acute / emergency medicine
- Experience of working with patients with frailty
- Significant recent experience in a senior nursing or allied health professional role within a primary care or emergency care setting
- Proven track record in improving patient experience and gaining patient/public views
- Experience of effective multidisciplinary working
Desirable
- Experience of multi-skilled approach to chronic disease management
- Evidence of innovative practice
- Experience of leading clinical teams and professional agendas
- Experience of leadership role and change management
- Recent experience of direct involvement in delivering the Quality Agenda
- Experience of telephone triage
- Experience in end of life care
- Proficiency in basic clinical skills such as venepuncture, advanced peripheral venous cannulation, urethral catheterisation and arterial blood gas sampling.
- Ability to interpret clinical investigations such as ECG's, arterial blood gas and chest x-rays.
- Basic IT skills and experience using electronic clinical systems
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously delivering advanced clinical care
- Professional approach, with calm and objective disposition
- Self-motivated.
- Leadership skills and ability to motivate a team.
- Practical problem solving ability
- Persuasive and influencing skills
- Change management skills
- Can act on own initiative.
- Flexible approach to working hours and location
- Evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
- Patient and public focussed
- Effective time management skills Have a commitment to personal development
Desirable
- Coaching and counselling skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MSc level qualification in advanced clinical practice
- First level registration with the NMC or appropriate allied health professional governing body
- Independent Prescriber qualification
Desirable
- Chronic Disease Management ALS/ILS
- Post-Graduate qualification in any relevant areas of the 4 pillars of ACP.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as an ACP in primary care, community care or acute / emergency medicine
- Experience of working with patients with frailty
- Significant recent experience in a senior nursing or allied health professional role within a primary care or emergency care setting
- Proven track record in improving patient experience and gaining patient/public views
- Experience of effective multidisciplinary working
Desirable
- Experience of multi-skilled approach to chronic disease management
- Evidence of innovative practice
- Experience of leading clinical teams and professional agendas
- Experience of leadership role and change management
- Recent experience of direct involvement in delivering the Quality Agenda
- Experience of telephone triage
- Experience in end of life care
- Proficiency in basic clinical skills such as venepuncture, advanced peripheral venous cannulation, urethral catheterisation and arterial blood gas sampling.
- Ability to interpret clinical investigations such as ECG's, arterial blood gas and chest x-rays.
- Basic IT skills and experience using electronic clinical systems
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously delivering advanced clinical care
- Professional approach, with calm and objective disposition
- Self-motivated.
- Leadership skills and ability to motivate a team.
- Practical problem solving ability
- Persuasive and influencing skills
- Change management skills
- Can act on own initiative.
- Flexible approach to working hours and location
- Evidence of a flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development
- Patient and public focussed
- Effective time management skills Have a commitment to personal development
Desirable
- Coaching and counselling skills
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).
