Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) for Urgent Care

at  Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Company Description
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Job Description
This role as lead specialty ACP for Urgent care will form part of the senior leadership team, where they will provide expert advice, clinical expertise, clinical leadership and support all medical, nursing and allied health professional teams. Working across both the QAH and Gosport War Memorial Hospital sites.
The post holder will be responsible for advanced practice service development, guidance and motivation as well as have operational oversight of the existing ENP and ACP workforce within Urgent Care.
The post holder will support and play a key role in the organisations strategic development of advanced level practice at both a local, divisional level and across partnership organisations. As well as developing the existing advanced practice team the post holder will work alongside the department’s senior leadership team to support and develop the entire Multiprofessional team to meet both the unit and divisional service vision.
The post holder will practice as a senior non-medical clinician within Urgent care – ECC/UTC. They will work across the ECC and UTC practicing independently and autonomously, seeing undifferentiated patients with undiagnosed problems with no supervision. The post holder will deliver a 60% direct clinical component (DCC) to their role and 40% related to their management, leadership, innovation and educational responsibilities (SPA).
Qualifications

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with a relevant professional regulator (e.g., NMC, HCPC, GPhC).
• MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice or academic equivalence through an ePortfolio-supported route to include history taking, physical assessment, diagnostics, clinical reasoning, and research.
• Completion of a recognised clinical capability framework or portfolio.
• Independent Prescriber.
• Red Dot or equivalent course in essential radiology.
• IR(ME)R Certification.
• ALS Provider

Experience

• Significant post-registration experience / consolidation as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
• Significant post-registration specialty experience in Urgent Care as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
• Experience of working within a UTC / ECC environment
• Experienced in scope of practice development, workforce transformation, including budget management, training needs analysis development, and funding pathways for Advanced Level Practice.
• Evidence of good leadership skills.
• Team player.
• Lead change within a service or organisation.
• Undertaken a quality improvement.
• Service improvement/Quality Improvement projects.
• Evidence of supporting others’ development.
• Published.
• Experience of regional or national networking.

Skills

• Competent clinical assessment skills in the face of undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
• Competent to perform a range of relevant clinical skills across Urgent Care, e.g., X-ray interpretation including chest and facial views, fracture / dislocation reduction, complex suturing,
• Appraisal trained.
• Proven leadership abilities.
• Teaching/education skills.
• Clinical Audit skills.
• Knee aspiration
• Research skills.
• GCP Certification.

Knowledge

• A firm understanding of Advanced Level Practice within the national scope of the Multi-Professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice and the Advanced Clinical Practice in Urgent Care Curriculum Framework.
• Evidence of multidisciplinary team working.
• Confidence in advanced level practice development, others’ development, and approach to practice.
• Interest in clinical research.
• Competence in understanding and interpreting clinical diagnostics relevant to the role.

Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs

Please refer the Job description for details