Advanced Clinical Practitioner | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Milton Keynes, MK4 4DA |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6203982/333-D-HJ-1559-B |
Summary
HMP Woodhill, Milton Keynes – Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Prison/Health and Justice – We believe in ‘Caring not Judging’
As a result of service expansion there is an exciting opportunity to apply for the role of Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HMP Woodhill. Within the Health and Justice directorate of CNWL there is a move to adapt and expand services to meet the needs of this population. This vital role will include contributing to the development of the service and promoting awareness and understanding of neurodiversity within the prison. Are you an exceptional practitioner for a rewarding new challenge? Would you like the opportunity to use your skills in an environment like no other to make a real difference every day?
About the Job
HMP Woodhill is a Category A/B prison accommodating approximately 500 adult male prisoners who are sentenced. CNWL provide Primary Care, Addictions and Mental Health Services and are an integral part of the wider prison team contributing to the rehabilitative culture within the establishment.
About You
You will be a qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a real passion for delivering high quality clinical care. You will be self-motivated, flexible and work well within a team but be able to work autonomously.
You do not need to have prison experience as we will provide you with a full induction and training.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will use highly specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients within their sphere of practice. The ACP is accountable for independent clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated conditions. In addition to this, the ACP is also responsible for appropriately referring patients to relevant specialities for any necessary inpatient or outpatient investigations.
The ACP will practice at an advanced level demonstrating in depth knowledge and competence in aspects which may include acute medicine, community services and mental health; encompassing enhanced assessment, critical thinking, intervention planning and delivery and clinical management skills that are evidence based.
The ACP will be responsible for promoting clinical excellence in the care of patients that present within their service and provide clinical advice and support to nursing / AHP staff and other health care professionals. They will provide professional and independent clinical care which enables the coordination of a multi professional seamless service for patients.
As a senior member of the Multi-disciplinary team, the ACP will also play a pivotal role in the operational development of the ACP service. They will initiate, manage and drive change, innovating changes in practice for the benefit of patient care in line with current trust and local programmes.
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Advanced Clinical Practitioners to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff members.
As an ACP we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.
As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings
Clinical
• Use specialist clinical knowledge to independently assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatments and interventions for patients with complex undifferentiated or undefined presentations.
• Undertake comprehensive knowledge and skills of systematic history taking and clinical examination of patients who have complex needs, developing a co-produced management plan.
• Perform clinical procedures appropriate to the history and clinical examination of the patient, including further invasive testing and treatments requiring highly developed skills and precision, where indicated
• Requests investigations such as blood, urine and other laboratory tests, electrocardiographs (ECGs), ultrasound scans, X-Rays and computed tomography (CT) scans in accordance with IR(ME)R regulations as local policy allows.
• Utilise clinical reasoning and decision-making skills to make differential diagnosis and provide rationales for patients’ management plans continuously reflecting and evaluating practice findings and clinical response to treatment and establishes an appropriate ongoing management plan accordingly.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately in complex, deteriorating, urgent and emergency situations, including initiation and leadership of resuscitation.
• Manage regularly clinical events involving patients often requiring unpredictable and high levels of physical effort according to the patient’s dependency and clinical need.
• Work as an autonomous professional, within ethical codes and legal frameworks, being responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
• Act as specialist and a resource to all staff in the delivery of clinical care to patients.
• Advocate high quality care for people, act as a champion for people by representing/supporting the person’s interests at team meetings, during hospital care, home care and when interfacing with statutory and non-statutory service providers.
• Empower patients and their families through appropriate support and education.
• Influence, support and take an active role in Public Health/ Self-care of the individual and community.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report clinical information, maintain accurate patient records related to assessment and care planning.
• Develop clinical protocols and guidelines within own area of practice to ensure quality of care at all times.
• Where appropriate review medication/act as a resource to other colleagues for medication advice and support. Discuss side effects and where appropriate prescribe within own NMP formulary and competencies relevant medication and liaise with Pharmacy, medical team and relevant steering groups of any changes to NMP formulary.
• Where appropriate prescribe and review medication (as an independent prescriber) for therapeutic effectiveness appropriate to patient need and in accordance with best/evidencebased practice and national and local protocols and within the role’s scope of practice and legal framework.
• Where appropriate deliver psychological therapies appropriate to patient need and in accordance with best/evidence-based practice and national and local protocols and within the role’s scope of practice and supervision framework.
• Regularly evaluate practice to ensure continuous improvement. Work with clinicians and management in examining episodes of care delivery, critical incidents and individual care plans to improve and develop services.
• Enable effective and comprehensive admission, transfers and discharge of care (where indicated in scope)
• Will provide advanced practice and ensure effective assessment, advice, treatment and management for patients physiological andpsychological needs
• Be responsible for implementation, monitoring and training of infection control and health and safety policies and procedures.
• Responsible for audits as required by the organisations and participate in research.
• Strategic responsibility for Clinical pathway or clinical supervision to other ACPs working on the same treatment pathway (where strategic responsibility in this pillar is indicated)
Education
• Effectively utilise a range of evidence-based educational strategies/interventions to support person centred care with individuals, their families and carers, and other healthcare colleagues.
• Critically assess and address individual learning needs that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice.
• To present case studies/audit/classic papers at relevant senior meetings.
• Ensure own compliance with mandatory training programmes and own ongoing professional development and development of the advanced practitioner role.
• Engage in clinical supervision and self-reflection to develop own clinical standards and work practices. Take lead role in implementing/monitoring supervision of colleagues.
• Lead the teaching, development, planning and implementation of a range of specialist educational and training programmes for all healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Participate in pre and post registration training for staff from multi professional backgrounds.
• Undertakes health promotion across organisational boundaries.
• Participate in the training and supervision of other ACPs
• Supervise students, learners and trainees in placement including their assessment, training and appraisal
• Strategic responsibility for education for a clinical pathway or educational supervision of ACPs (where strategic responsibility in this pillar is indicated)
Research, QI & Development
• Carry out research/QI or development work as part of role.
• Critically appraise available research and apply this knowledge to current clinical practice.
• Use audit and research skills to examine existing practice ensuring it is based on current best evidence.
• Work with other clinicians in examining episodes of care delivery, critical incidents and individual care plans to improve and develop services.
• Implement and evaluate new ways of working through planned programmes of care.
• Participate in research programme being undertaken in the department.
• Strategic responsibility for research in service. (where strategic responsibility in this pillar is indicated)
Professional Duties
• Maintain current NMC / HCPC registration and follow Professional Code of Conduct.
• Maintain own professional practice and CPD.
• Provide and takes part in Clinical Supervision.
• Deals professionally with sensitive and confidential information.
• Undertakes appraisal/annual reviews for team members.
Leadership & Management
• Contributes to the leadership and management of a multi-professional team of staff within the Division.
• Demonstrate team working, leadership, resilience and determination, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable
• Provides supervision/ line management for other ACPs in own treatment pathway and contributes to the ACP development.
• Undertake line management duties including appraisals of an appropriate workforce within the Service.
• Negotiate with/influence clinicians and managers across various commissioning agencies.
• Effectively communicates complex and sensitive information at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health care professionals and patients across organisations using the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to maximise understanding.
• Present specialist, expert, clinical knowledge at large national gatherings on progress and service improvement initiatives.
• Provide leadership and co-ordination across professional boundaries working closely with other clinicians within the same area of practice.
• Act as an ambassador and role model supporting the aims and vision of the Trust.
• Identifies clinical risk to Clinical Leads and reports on incidents.
• In conjunction with the Service Lead /Directorate Manager/Clinical Lead implements policies for own areas of work and proposes policy or service changes which impact beyond own area of activity.
• Contribute to the redesign of services in response to the demands of the national and local agenda.
• Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
• Participate in the induction and orientation programmes for newly appointed staff across the multidisciplinary team
• Strategic responsibility for management of ACPs in service or clinical pathway(where strategic responsibility in this pillar is indicated).
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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