Job Introduction
Are you ready for the next chapter in your ACP journey? Wiltshire Health and Care have an exciting part time 0.8 wte (30hrs) opportunity for a fully qualified or trainee ACP to join the inpatient team at Wiltshire Health and Care. You will be based on Cedar Ward, Chippenham Community Hospital working alongside a clinical team comprising Consultant Practitioners/Associate Specialists/GP trainees and other ACPs supporting the ward teams with the medical aspects of the patient care.
Applications are invited from candidates who are a Registered Nurse or Health Care Professional, holding a MSc in Advanced Practice (or working towards) and have relevant post registration experience. Experience at Band 6 or above with knowledge of effective change management skills and a proven track record in the delivery of high-quality clinical care and Non-Medical Prescribing are essential.
Main Responsibility
You will be expected to work across all four Advanced Practice Pillars.
Clinically working independently at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment.
Provide clinical leadership and support within both the medical and nursing teams and to support the Senior ACP Leadership Team in developing ACP service to improve the patient experience.
Support Junior colleagues to achieve training and development requirements. Ensure that you are maintaining your own portfolio of learning in accordance with trust ACP policy and HEE guidance.
Ensure clinical areas with consistent high-quality care through audit and research programs.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with clinical expertise and a passion for care of the elderly within community rehab setting. The successful candidate will be a team player who is flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service, who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary team delivering high quality care.
Essential
· Registered Nurse, current registration with the NMC
· MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or Advanced Nurse Practitioner
· Relevant post graduate Community Nursing/Acute Nursing speciality qualification/ training
· Registered Independent Non Medical Prescriber
· Leadership qualification/ training
Other Requirements – A clean driving licence, access to a vehicle for daily use.
Package Description
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Chippenham.
You will feel valued as a Advanced Clinical Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £53,755 - £60,504 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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