Bank Advanced Practitioner

Job Overview

DIMENSIONS OF JOB:

This is a generic Job Description for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals working as Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP’s) within the Trust. Specific responsibilities will vary between specialties; however, all ACP roles will be expected to reflect the Four Pillars of Advanced Practice: Clinical Practice, Leadership, Education of self and others, and Research & Development. Additional department specific tasks & responsibilities can be found after the generic sections.

The ACP role is a cutting-edge role in the field of advanced clinical practice which crosses professional boundaries, undertaking traditional medical roles and leading inter professional practice.

Main duties of the job

Purpose Of Job:

The ACP has a key working relationship with all members of nursing, midwifery, AHP,

medical staff and members of the multidisciplinary team involved in the care of patients.

The ACP is an experienced senior Nurse/Midwife/AHP who has successfully completed

formal education at master’s level on a recognised ACP programme.

The ACP bridges the professional and clinical boundaries between

nursing/midwifery/AHP and medical care often enabling them to take on the role and

responsibilities formerly undertaken by medical practitioners. The ACP practices both

autonomously and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team under the clinical

supervision provided by a Consultant and/or Team Leader

For areas where ACPs cover roles previously undertaken by medical practitioners, The

ACP complements the Middle Grade medical rota and the ACP rota by acting as a

senior, expert, skilled resource.

The post holder will use collaborative and independent judgement to assess, investigate,

diagnose, plan, implement, manage and evaluate clinical nursing/midwifery/AHP and

medical care and management of patients. The ACP will take a lead in the on-going

assessment, investigations, procedures, treatment and management of patients in their

speciality area.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Bank post to cover Advanced Clinical Practitioner roster gaps. Not formal post to advertise

Interested external staff cannot currently do bank at FHFT to cover roster gaps

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified ACP - MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Nil
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working as ACP currently
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Wishing to do bank hours as ACP at FHFT
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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