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This is a rare opportunity to join our Community Hospitals Team as a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

We are looking to recruit a compassionate and dynamic Trainee Advanced Practitioner to join our team of experienced APs working in a rotational post across 5 Community Hospitals. We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinician to help us develop this AP led service delivering medical care for patients from sub-acute care to general rehabilitation, and including specialist stroke services, palliative care and fractured neck of femur rehabilitation.

This diverse clinical case mix requires dedicated practitioners with comprehensive assessment and medical management skills to deliver safe effective care. We are building a team for the future and recognise the benefits of APs leading patient assessment , management and interventional therapies , supported by a team of GP’s.

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

The successful applicant will train on the job on our wards to gain competence to autonomously to admit and assess individual patient needs, determine a differential diagnosis, request investigations, and initiate appropriate holistic, research-based treatments, within a patient centred clinical management plan, to include independent prescribing. They will be expected to exercise advanced clinical expertise, and high levels of decision making in clinical care, whilst working closely with Medical, Nursing and Therapy teams to ensure patients receive appropriate holistic care, and co-ordinate a safe discharge with minimal avoidable delays. Additional responsibilities will include monitoring and leading on improvements to standards of care through, supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence-based practice, facilitation of learning through teaching and supporting professional colleagues, and demonstrate enhanced professional leadership skills.

This is a part time position of 30 hours per week over 3 days.

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
Flexible and agile working opportunities
Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
Wide range of supportive staff networks
Health and wellbeing opportunities

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• Behave consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on day to day basis.
• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use their initiative and take responsibility for themselves and the quality of their work and the service they provide to patients.
• Work with a degree of professional autonomy appropriate to level of training and begin to make critical/complex decisions with the support of qualified advanced clinical practitioners and the medical team
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment appropriate to level of training of patients who have complex and or chronic disease presentations, including screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness, making a differential diagnosis, prescribing treatments as an independent non-medical prescriber, initiating and reviewing treatment plans and discharging patients.
• Work collaboratively and cooperatively with clinical colleagues to develop services and quality of care delivered by providing clinical knowledge and skills and undertaking advanced clinical practice with an appropriate level of supervision
• Aim to improve patient outcomes through improving accessibility to services and improving quality, enabling safe and timely diagnostics, treatment and transfer where appropriate
• Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.
• Work as an effective and responsible member of the team, supporting others and exploring mechanisms to develop new ways of working and improved clinical continuity.

Note – As this is a training post the post holder must:

• Have a range of post registration experience that spans across the four pillars of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner Role and include clinical experience within the area of speciality they are applying to;
• Be willing to undertake and complete the MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice upon entry into the post and meet the Higher Education Institute entry requirements to achieve this;

Undertake a period of full or partial supervised practice that will support the completion of clinical competencies relevant to the trainee ACP role.

For full details of the duties and criteria please refer to the job description and person specification attached.