Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Enhanced Health in Care Homes)

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	26 Tachwedd 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Negotiable
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	10 Rhagfyr 2025
Lleoliad:	Swanage, BH19 1HB
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	A2472-25-0006

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MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES Develop and implement the highest quality innovative clinical practice. Be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by the highest level of theoretical and practical knowledge and be able to demonstrate improved patient care outcomes. To undertake comprehensive specialist holistic assessment of patients and carers where needs are highly complex. This will involve planning, implementing and evaluating the care delivery according to changing healthcare needs and varying degrees of clinical risk. Authorise the decision to admit service users and / or proactively initiate discharge (where applicable to profession). To work autonomously using advanced levels of history taking and examination skills within multidisciplinary team guidelines and protocols. Utilise advanced clinical skills in assessment and/or formulate a diagnosis and/or treatment plan. Demonstrate a high level of knowledge in relation to pattern of disease / disorder, markers of condition progression and range of treatments available at each stage of disease or condition. Be able to assess critically and re-evaluate the clinical situation as the patients condition or needs change, including effective management of risk. Anticipate likely potential physical and psychological problems caused either by the condition or by treatment. Where appropriate to profession, Independent Non-Medical / Supplementary prescriber, able to take a history, assess, examine, diagnose and prescribe and develop a management plan including medication and monitor response to medication. Advise and communicate as appropriate with acute hospitals, primary and social care and community teams thus ensuring seamless continuity and transfer (if appropriate) of care for patients between other relevant health, social and third sector agencies, professionals and other care settings. To act at all times as an advocate for service users, carers and relatives. Take a lead in empowering and facilitating all other professions to meet the care needs of service users and their carers by the promotion of principles and philosophy such as Care Closer to Home, rehabilitation and optimal self-care. Establish, maintain and effectively manage barriers to advanced, highly skilled and effective communication with service users, carers and professionals across health and social care, in order to develop a therapeutic relationship within which highly sensitive, distressing health conditions and highly complex issues are often addressed. This includes imparting information regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment and referring to other teams as appropriate to promote integrated working and to improve patient outcomes. Provide appropriate support and advice to carers and refer for carers assessment if appropriate. Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate confidential patient records to a very high standard reflective of Advanced Clinical Practice. Develop, implement and audit protocols, guidelines and policies for the service. These will be shared with the multi-professional teams in all care settings. Maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate that practice is up to date and evidence based. Maintain competency and ensure own compliance with mandatory training and revalidation requirements. Identify own personal developmental and educational needs to work at an advanced level ensuring appropriate action is taken to maintain and further develop such skills. Receive clinical supervision in order to clinically improve knowledge and the quality of care to service users. Establish and maintain a regional and national network of contacts relevant to the service. MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES Undertake clinical supervision and systematic peer caseload review of colleagues on an individual or group basis. Act as a role model demonstrating effective clinical leadership on a daily basis. Assess and monitor risk in own and others practice, acting on results, thereby ensuring safe delivery of care. Participate in maintaining systems for risk assessment and minimisation including promoting a fair blame culture in order that near misses and incidents are reported and investigated. Contribute to investigation of incidents and complaints when required; participate in identifying lessons learnt and the sharing of learning across the organisation. Ensure dignity, privacy, and cultural and religious beliefs are respected at all times. Continually monitor standards of care through quality markers, achievement of PCN targets, and benchmarking. To be aware of local quality data and use it to identify practice development required. Work proactively in managing change in own speciality to improve practice and health outcomes. Mentor student nurses/apprenticeship ACPs. RESPONSIBILITY FOR HUMAN RESOURCES/WORKFORCE Participate in the recruitment and selection of both trained and untrained staff which involves developing job descriptions, short listing candidates and interviewing. Provide mentorship and shadowing opportunities for other professional colleagues undertaking post registration courses or specialist placements, ensuring this learning experience is effectively managed, supporting the individual through highly complex and emotive clinical situations. Recognise and utilise the individuals skills and knowledge, coaching others in their development and acting as a mentor/preceptor across all professional boundaries. Plan, deliver and evaluate appropriate specialist learning programmes. Organise and arrange relevant study days and conferences to meet identified educational needs of multi-professional audience. Formally educate, supervise, mentor, coach and advise to enhance the principle of advancing practice for new staff/team members within the PCN. Provides training, clinical supervision and systematic peer caseload review of colleagues. Create and support an environment in which clinical practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated. Provide education to Care Home teams when required. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FINANCE / RESOURCES Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources with shared responsibility to identify and order goods as required within agreed financial parameters. Influence decisions regarding the allocation of financial resources through consultation, service redesign, participation in meetings and audit. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Facilitate learning for patients and their carers in relation to their identified health needs. In collaboration with other senior staff, ensure that clinical practice is patient centred and research based in accordance with professional practice, guidelines, and national and local benchmarks. To actively engage in clinical supervision appropriate to advancing practice as well as other learning and development opportunities such as Special Interest Groups, Action Learning Groups and Communities of Practice To facilitate the development of aspiring and trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioners through the provision of learning opportunities as a workplace supervisor, educational supervisor or clinical supervisor providing feedback and working with others where issues of capability and/or progression arise Regularly undertake audit and service evaluation to inform service improvement using an evidence-based approach to draw on best practice. When necessary, support and facilitate colleagues in research and clinical audit to improve effectiveness and quality of patient care. Participate in surveys as required. Critically analyse research findings and their implications for practice. Disseminate evidence-based practice and audit findings through local, regional and/or national presentation to professional groups and through publication. POLICY & SERVICE DEVELOPMENT To inform the management team of current changes and trends in national practice that could improve patient care and facilitate changes to practice. To ensure that good practice is rapidly shared within the service area and wider organisation where appropriate. Contribute to the strategic development of the service by the evaluation of service delivery, identify areas for improvement and change and implement the agreed changes to practice. Develop, influence and lead implementation of policy making, procedures, protocols and clinical guidelines, internally and externally, necessary to support the service. Continue to develop and promote the Advanced Clinical Practitioner role through professional publications and conference papers. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION / DATA Collects, collates and presents diverse statistical information in order to facilitate the formation of reports, business plans and succession planning. Maintains client records. PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES Ensure that personal performance meets job requirements, Professional Codes and standards and post competency standards at all times. Ensure the required level of IT competence required for the role to process, record, evaluate, analyse and report data. Demonstrate commitment to the role and to service improvement through developing relationships with Commissioners, innovative thinking and small scale project management. Challenge poor practice and take appropriate action making full use of current support systems. Provide a positive, compassionate role model to junior staff and colleagues to ensure the delivery of people centred care and the key components of compassionate care. Create effective teamwork across professional boundaries using team building skills, creating common goals, and through engagement. Respect and apply the requirements of equality and diversity, promoting and role modelling these across the multi-disciplinary team.