University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
8a - ADVANCED CARE PRACTITIONER
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards.
This post is aligned to the NHS England Advanced Clinical Practice Framework, operating across the four pillars of advanced practice. The successful candidate will practise with a high level of autonomy and complex decision-making authority, delivering expert care to frail older adults across hospital and community settings.
- Provide advanced, autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment for older adults with complex, frailty-related and multi-morbid presentations.
- Manage undifferentiated and highly complex clinical scenarios.
- Synthesize information from multiple sources to formulate differential diagnoses and evidence-based management plans.
- Take professional responsibility for complete episodes of care, including prescribing (where appropriate), investigation, referral and follow-up.
- Support safe, effective patient flow and proactive pathway management.
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Interview: 22nd September
The Role
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will work within our Older Persons Continuing Care Wards (OPCC Wards) at Poole and Bournemouth Hospitals and will provide clinical leadership and advanced autonomous practice across the Directorates OPCC Wards.
The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of older persons who are medically fit for discharge but have ongoing care needs. Utilising an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: ANN BROWN
Job title: MATRON
Email address: ann.brown56@nhs.net
Telephone number: 0300 019 8143
For further discussion about this role or if you would like an informal visit to the ward then please contact:
Ward Lead - Gabi Vanci 0300 019 4933
ACP - Jeanette O'Donnell 0300 019 4934
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