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Urgent Treatment Centre Advanced Clinical Practitioner
| Posting date: | 15 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £60,504 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7100328/249-7100328 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We are offering an exciting opportunity for Advanced Clinical Practitioner’s in our Urgent Treatment Centre.
Join our dynamic Team at the Great Western Hospital FT and take your career to the next level. We are currently seeking experienced and qualified practitioners who are ready to make a real impact.
If you're a passionate professional with a deep interest in Urgent Care, specifically in dealing with Minor Injuries and Minor Illnesses this role is tailor-made for you.
We welcome both Adult and Paediatric presentations to the unit. As a registered professional with a Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will bring with you a wealth of clinical experience. Your expertise will be crucial in assessing, treating, and managing a diverse caseload of adults and paediatrics in need of urgent care.
1. Take responsibility to autonomously manage a caseload of within specialist area. This will include follow up outpatient appointments and management of any investigative results to deliver a clear diagnosis to the patient and on-going management plan.
2. Use a diverse range of knowledge to become competent in evidence based therapeutic interventions, which will include prescribing medication where legally allowed and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
3. Will develop skills and knowledge to be able to assess individuals and families using person-centred approaches and a range of assessment methods examples being history taking, physical examination, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or conducting health needs assessment. This will include independent examination of the patient and obtaining specimens.
4. To be conversant with the local and national policies relevant to advanced practice and the role of advanced clinical practitioner in specialist area.
5. Is expected to progress clinical expertise to support decision making, particularly where clinical presentations are not directly covered by standard protocol or where highly complex or unusual aspects require specialised outcomes.
“Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.”
6. The post holder will teach regularly on a range of subjects both locally and externally. This will be multi-disciplinary and will include the design, development and delivery of specialist training programmes.
7. Use a range of IT systems which require the inputting of data, maintain patient records, whilst requesting and interpreting of diagnostics.
8. Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management issues and in partnership with the Modern Matron and Divisional Director of Nursing, facilitate the implementation of standards, policies, procedures, competencies and clinical guidelines.
9. Support and maintain safety, quality, clinical effectiveness and patient experience, working with clinical leaders to ensure culture and delivery of safe and effective harm free care. Upholding the culture of listening, whereby patients, relatives and carers are central to service delivery and development.
10. Utilise expert analytical and critical thinking in conjunction with clinical skills to ensure that care and services are innovative, contemporaneous and clinically effective.
11. Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information, where there may be substantial barriers to acceptance, using enhanced persuasive motivational negotiation, advanced empathetic and/or reassurance skills are required.
12. Ensure continual quality monitoring and improvement that focuses on reducing risk and developing efficiency and quality in care
This advert closes on Monday 21 Apr 2025
We are offering an exciting opportunity for Advanced Clinical Practitioner’s in our Urgent Treatment Centre.
Join our dynamic Team at the Great Western Hospital FT and take your career to the next level. We are currently seeking experienced and qualified practitioners who are ready to make a real impact.
If you're a passionate professional with a deep interest in Urgent Care, specifically in dealing with Minor Injuries and Minor Illnesses this role is tailor-made for you.
We welcome both Adult and Paediatric presentations to the unit. As a registered professional with a Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will bring with you a wealth of clinical experience. Your expertise will be crucial in assessing, treating, and managing a diverse caseload of adults and paediatrics in need of urgent care.
1. Take responsibility to autonomously manage a caseload of within specialist area. This will include follow up outpatient appointments and management of any investigative results to deliver a clear diagnosis to the patient and on-going management plan.
2. Use a diverse range of knowledge to become competent in evidence based therapeutic interventions, which will include prescribing medication where legally allowed and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions.
3. Will develop skills and knowledge to be able to assess individuals and families using person-centred approaches and a range of assessment methods examples being history taking, physical examination, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or conducting health needs assessment. This will include independent examination of the patient and obtaining specimens.
4. To be conversant with the local and national policies relevant to advanced practice and the role of advanced clinical practitioner in specialist area.
5. Is expected to progress clinical expertise to support decision making, particularly where clinical presentations are not directly covered by standard protocol or where highly complex or unusual aspects require specialised outcomes.
“Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.”
6. The post holder will teach regularly on a range of subjects both locally and externally. This will be multi-disciplinary and will include the design, development and delivery of specialist training programmes.
7. Use a range of IT systems which require the inputting of data, maintain patient records, whilst requesting and interpreting of diagnostics.
8. Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical governance and risk management issues and in partnership with the Modern Matron and Divisional Director of Nursing, facilitate the implementation of standards, policies, procedures, competencies and clinical guidelines.
9. Support and maintain safety, quality, clinical effectiveness and patient experience, working with clinical leaders to ensure culture and delivery of safe and effective harm free care. Upholding the culture of listening, whereby patients, relatives and carers are central to service delivery and development.
10. Utilise expert analytical and critical thinking in conjunction with clinical skills to ensure that care and services are innovative, contemporaneous and clinically effective.
11. Providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive and highly contentious information, where there may be substantial barriers to acceptance, using enhanced persuasive motivational negotiation, advanced empathetic and/or reassurance skills are required.
12. Ensure continual quality monitoring and improvement that focuses on reducing risk and developing efficiency and quality in care
This advert closes on Monday 21 Apr 2025
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