Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Virtual Wards

Are you an Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking for your next challenge?

Enjoy being pivotal to the clinical needs of your service?

Interested in what a virtual ward could offer, both for career and experience?

Then this role is a must for you!

Band 8a

We are looking for 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners to help us develop, and participate in, the Virtual Ward delivering a collaborative, integrated model of care that delivers a range of monitoring, interventions, and care in the community to avoid and reduce hospital admissions.

Post holder will be appointed to work across the Bedfordshire Care Alliance footprint, bases will be confirmed following appointment.

Working across the BLMK (Bedford, Luton, and Milton Keynes) system and across two community service organisations; CCSNT (Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust) and ELFT CHS (East London Foundation Trust Community Health Services), and to the acute hospitals under Bedfordshire Care Alliance.

You will be a key Clinical Lead within the service delivery and governance and will drive the successful management of the provision to provide care for those patients identified as being suitable for the virtual ward environment.

Relocation expenses will be considered for this role.

Interviews will take place on 26th June at The Poynt, Units 2-3, Poynters Road, Luton, LU4 0LA.

Education

The post will be structured around the four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out in the multi professional consultant level practice capability and impact framework (Health Education England www.hee.nhs.uk 2021):

• Expert clinical practice
• A professional leadership and consultancy function
• Education, training, and development
• Research, evaluation, and service development across the system.
  
  

The definition of a virtual ward is ‘a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that is enabled by technology. Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment they need in their own home’ (NHS England and NHS Improvement, 2022).

The NHS is focussed on increasing capacity in virtual wards to support people at the place they call home, including care homes. In a virtual ward, support can include remote monitoring using apps, technology platforms, wearables and medical devices, such as pulse oximeters. Support may also involve face-to-face care from multi-disciplinary teams based in the community, which is sometimes called Hospital at Home.

Cambridgeshire Community Services is collaborating with East London NHS Foundation Trust and Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to provide a single ‘offer’ of Urgent Community response across Bedfordshire with the potential to admit to a virtual ward when clinically appropriate to safely support admission avoidance.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chloe Cameron Job title: Nurse Consultant Email address: [email protected]