Advanced Clinical Practitioner

at  University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Do you have the passion to make a difference to people’s lives following a neurological event?
The Coventry Community Neuro and Stroke Rehab Services (CINSS) are looking for a highly motivated Advance Clinical Practitioner to join our interdisciplinary team.
We are excited to be able to offer this new opportunity for an enthusiastic RGN or HCP.
The service is a community based interdisciplinary therapy team, who support the timely discharge of patients from hospital. Our patients have ongoing rehabilitation or neuro management needs following a new or worsening presentation of a neurological condition, both stroke, and non-stroke.
The team work collaboratively with acute services, rehab and community networks and third sector services to deliver a patient-centred; goal focused approach to rehabilitation. Our team is an integral part of the stroke pathway, in reaching into both stroke and in-patient rehab settings.
This post will offer you the opportunity to consolidate and develop neurological and wider clinical skills. Your skills and experience will be integral to our quality improvement and service developments.
You will have the opportunity to shape and develop the role and embed it within an already successful integrated therapy offer. You will be working closely with established roles including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists, Speech and Language therapists and Therapy Assistants.
An inclusive team approach and excellent communication skills are essential. You will be expected to work independently and effectively within the Community Stroke and Integrated Neuro Rehab Service to ensure safe and effective management of these patients in the community. You will be able to prioritise your workload and time effectively to support an integrated approach.
You will be required to initiate effective history taking and undertake a medical clinical assessment to form a clinical diagnosis to support the implementation of a range of medical and care interventions for patients presenting with acute and chronic conditions who are receiving rehabilitation within the service.
You will also be required to be part of the Interdisciplinary team, supporting patients to meet their goals in a community setting.
As a service we are committed to supporting continuous development of clinical skills through joint working, access to a comprehensive in-house training program, and opportunities to attend both, internal and external courses.
We will accept full and part time applicants.
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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
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By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation’s core values.

• Co-ordinate the care of Community Integrated Neuro and Stroke Service patients throughout their pathway with the multidisciplinary team and clinical services to ensure the effective management of this group of patients.
• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
• Lead and deliver clinical care, across a variety of settings, according to national and local guidelines ensuring delivery of evidence-based care and working towards the Trust vision of providing a World Class Service.
• Undertake an initial assessment to determine differential diagnosis, utilising advanced critical thinking and decision-making skills, deciding when necessary to refer to senior clinical colleagues.
• Act autonomously to assess, prioritise and provide expert clinical care which contributes to the patients’ treatment plan to ensure that optimum physical, psychological, and social care needs are met and ensures quality care.
• Request and interpret relevant investigations to facilitate the development of the patient’s management plan.
• Proactively refer to other clinicians (own or other services) depending upon patients’ needs to deliver care beyond your limitations and scope of practice.
• Proactively initiate treatment plans for patients requiring intervention and treatment ensuring ethically based considerations.
• Proactively identify, diagnose, and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing long term conditions.
• Undertake relevant clinical procedures to facilitate patient care within the service, supported by the appropriate training and supervision.
• Assess, diagnose, prescribe (as per scope of practice and professional regulatory requirements), and review medications for therapeutic effectiveness in the context of acute/emergency illness/ chronic illness, considering any current treatment given including pre-existing medical conditions.
• Providing information and advice to patients on prescribed medication regimens, side-effects, and interactions ensuring compliance with evidence- based practice and national and practice protocols and within their scope of practice and professional regulatory body requirements.
• Integrates both pharmacological (as per scope of practice and professional regulatory requirements) and non-pharmacological treatments as appropriate into patient management plans.
• Document clearly all aspects of assessment, diagnosis, and management plan and present the findings, using the approved documentation framework.
• Facilitate shared decision making by discussing assessment outcomes with patients, carers, and other health care professionals, to enable patients to make informed decisions regarding treatment.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high-quality service within a complex and challenging environment with often, conflicting priorities.
• Support patients, families, and carers to adopt health healthy lifestyles strategies and apply principles of self- care, alongside clinical management plans.
• Understand and apply safeguarding measures that support the identification of vulnerable adults and children and be aware of statutory child/ vulnerable patient’s health procedures and local guidance.
• Contribute to informed patient consent and act as patient advocate.

Undertake delegated consent as appropriate and after successful completion of the relevant training and competencies.

• Report clinical incidents via Trust Datix reporting system.

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