Advanced Clinical Practitioner B7

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Band 7

£51,883 - £58,544 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

We are looking for a proactive Advanced Clinical Practitioner who wants to share their skills within our team.

The post is based within the Urgent Community Response Team. This service provides a multi-disciplinary urgent assessment and crisis intervention service within a 2 hour response, and at times a 2-4 hr response to patients in the community with the aim of preventing hospital admission and supporting with early discharge from hospital, operating 7 days per week 8am to 8pm.

The post holder is an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, acting within their professional boundaries. The post-holder will be expected to be working towards becoming a non-medical prescriber with good community experience and skilled to see patients independently, making autonomous decisions in the clinical and diagnostic assessment of patients with potentially complex health and social care needs to support keeping them in the community and reduce hospital admissions / A&E attendance and to develop a comprehensive plan of care.

Proposed interview week beginning 16th December 2024

The post holder will have the support of the Lead Clinician where there is uncertainty or a need for additional support. The referrals are accepted to the service from GPs, Acute Trust, 111, St Christopher’s hospice, Ambulatory Services and community providers. The role includes supporting LAS/111/999 referrals for Urgent Falls Pick-up.

• To respond to urgent referrals into the service from GP/111/Acute trust/Hospics and community providers for patients to be seen at home, who have deteriorated below baseline due to illness or injury and will require additional clinical support, medication prescribed and care plans to prevent attendance to A&E or hospital admission. There will be referrals for supporting early discharge with monitoring of symptoms and needs to ensure safe clinical care is maintained.
• To develop high level skills in clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning to proactively manage high acuity users of health and social care services, with multiple co-morbidities and pharmacy, social, medical and nursing needs and who are at risk of hospital admission.
  
  

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Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice means that your career with us will be rewarding.

Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point, applicants from outside the NHS will receive the start point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms & conditions.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Yoven Soobramaney Job title: Service Lead Rapid Response Email address: [email protected]