Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for Clinical Practitioner to join our West Wiltshire Locality Hospital at Home service. The service is currently undergoing an exciting period of transformation, making this an excellent time to become part of a dynamic and innovative team.
You will be based in our Trowbridge Hospital location but work with the integrated community health & care services and peoples homes. Service hours run from 8am-8pm, 7 days a week.
As an ACP, you will play a pivotal role in providing expert clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients within your area of specialty. You will lead by example, supporting colleagues, championing best practice, and helping drive forward innovation in patient pathways.
Main duties of the job
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, reporting to the Consultant Practitioner, you will provide a confident and compassionate service supporting crisis response, admission avoidance, and the care of people living with frailty. You'll carefully assess and manage patients on the virtual ward, helping them stay safely at home through timely diagnoses, investigations, and treatments delivered in partnership with other agencies.
You will be a visible and approachable clinical expert, offering direct care while guiding and supporting colleagues. With patients at the centre of every decision, you'll promote shared decision making and work closely with carers and professionals to plan care and make appropriate referrals.
Within the Community Team, you'll offer supportive leadership, encourage joined up working, and contribute to high quality care and continuous improvement. You'll help prevent unnecessary hospital transfers by providing safe alternatives and maintain strong communication with primary care and inpatient teams to support safe discharge and follow up.
You will uphold professional standards, keep clear and accurate records, and support organisational goals, including health promotion and chronic disease management. Staying up to date with research, you'll share learning, embed evidence based practice, and highlight opportunities for service development.
For the full list of responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team in our West Wiltshire Locality Hospital at Home service.
You will feel valued as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £55,690 - £62,682 (Band 8a AfC Salary)with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
The ideal candidate for this role will:
- First level nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, or Paramedic degree
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
- History Taking and Physical Assessment module at Masters level
- Diagnostics module at Masters level
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Previous experience in gerontology or a relevant medical specialty at band 6 or above.
- Evidence in challenging clinical practice and leading in the development of new pathways of care and delivering best practice
- Evidence of successfully resolving complex problems
- Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment
- Proven skills in leading, managing and developing teams
- Evidence of successful resource management.
- Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clinical conditions and end of life care
- Strong analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and relatives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to develop and deliver training packages to a wide range of staff
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Good IT skills
- IT literate
- Willingness to work in other areas of the service as and when required to do so.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
Desirable
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Qualification
- Completion of required modules for Band 7 Clinical leadership
- Experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/ Clinical Lead.
- Strong IT Skills including excel and power-point
- Knowledge of national NHS drivers and initiatives
- Advanced clinical practice skills such as interpretation of ECG; X-rays.
- Presentation skills
- Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
- Knowledge of national and local NHS healthcare agenda, standards, research and its implications. Active in national clinical networks, involving care of older people
Job description
Job responsibilities
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you'll be part of our valued team in our West Wiltshire Locality Hospital at Home service.
You will feel valued as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £55,690 - £62,682 (Band 8a AfC Salary)with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
The ideal candidate for this role will:
- First level nursing, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, or Paramedic degree
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
- History Taking and Physical Assessment module at Masters level
- Diagnostics module at Masters level
- MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Previous experience in gerontology or a relevant medical specialty at band 6 or above.
- Evidence in challenging clinical practice and leading in the development of new pathways of care and delivering best practice
- Evidence of successfully resolving complex problems
- Experience in carrying out clinical audit and risk assessment
- Proven skills in leading, managing and developing teams
- Evidence of successful resource management.
- Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clinical conditions and end of life care
- Strong analytical and judgement skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and relatives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to develop and deliver training packages to a wide range of staff
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Good IT skills
- IT literate
- Willingness to work in other areas of the service as and when required to do so.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours.
Desirable
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber Qualification
- Completion of required modules for Band 7 Clinical leadership
- Experience as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner/ Clinical Lead.
- Strong IT Skills including excel and power-point
- Knowledge of national NHS drivers and initiatives
- Advanced clinical practice skills such as interpretation of ECG; X-rays.
- Presentation skills
- Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
- Knowledge of national and local NHS healthcare agenda, standards, research and its implications. Active in national clinical networks, involving care of older people
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Desirable
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Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
Desirable
- Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site
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.
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