Trainee ACP in Haemoglobinopathies / ACP in Haemoglobinopathies

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Trainee ACP in Haemoglobinopathies / ACP in Haemoglobinopathies

Band 8a

Main area Haematology Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: This post holder will progress to a Band 8a upon completion of the trust governance process which includes, a MSc in advanced practice, the completion of a trust portfolio of the relevant speciality and ratification from the trust ACP credentialing panel. Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 197-KH8920

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and credentialed Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join the Haematology and Haemoglobinopathy service at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, as an advanced clinical practitioner in haemoglobinopathies, operating across both University Hospital Lewisham (UHL) and Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). Trainee's will be considered for the role, dependent on experience and clinical and academic background.

This is a senior clinical leadership post responsible for the development and operational delivery of an ACP-led haematology service, with a primary focus on haemoglobinopathies, and secondary focus on wider haematology. The post holder will practise at the highest level of autonomy, supported by the Consultant Haematologist team and wider haematology multidisciplinary team, and will provide expert assessment, diagnosis, non-medical prescribing, and clinical management for patients across the full range of haemoglobinopathies.

Main duties of the job

• Holistic individual consultation of patients using a range of different assessment methods including medical history taking, physical assessment, clinical investigations and risk stratifications tools, all of these appropriate to the presentation within the boundaries of the role.
• Orderandinterpretinvestigations,laboratorytests, appropriate imaging,andactonresultsasappropriate.
• Reach a valid, reliable, and comprehensive conclusion based the history and clinical findings.
• Initiatedrugtherapy/medicationwithintheparametersofagreedclinicalguidelinesandinaccordancewithpresentlegislationsupplyandprescribingofmedicines.
• Communicate with patients in ways that empowers them to make informed choices about their health and healthcare.
• Activelyimplement and manage, evidence basedtherapeutic programmes, which are in the interest of patient and improve health outcomes.
• Work in partnership with other clinical teams making appropriate referrals to optimise health outcomes and resources.
• In partnership with patients, clients and other professions, make sounds decision which are ethically based in the interest of patients and clients in the absence of precedents and protocols.
• Provide specialist knowledge, advice, resource information and support to clinical staff across the trust.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Delivery of the evidence based expert clinical care exercising a high degree of professional autonomy, demonstrating the ability to make sound decisions based on the knowledge and experience.

• Holistic individual consultation of patients using a range of different assessment methods including medical history taking, physical assessment, clinical investigations and risk stratifications tools, all of these appropriate to the presentation within the boundaries of the role.
• Orderandinterpretinvestigations,laboratorytests, appropriate imaging,andactonresultsasappropriate.
• Reach a valid, reliable, and comprehensive conclusion based the history and clinical findings.
• Initiatedrugtherapy/medicationwithintheparametersofagreedclinicalguidelinesandinaccordancewithpresentlegislationsupplyandprescribingofmedicines.
• Communicate with patients in ways that empowers them to make informed choices about their health and healthcare.
• Activelyimplement and manage, evidence basedtherapeutic programmes, which are in the interest of patient and improve health outcomes.
• Work in partnership with other clinical teams making appropriate referrals to optimise health outcomes and resources.
• In partnership with patients, clients and other professions, make sounds decision which are ethically based in the interest of patients and clients in the absence of precedents and protocols.
• Provide specialist knowledge, advice, resource information and support to clinical staff across the trust.

1. Service & Practice improvement

• Promote the improvement of quality and clinical effectiveness within the resource constraints.
• Develop practices that are appropriate to patient and service need thought understanding the wider implications of epidemiological, demographic, social, political, legislative, and professional trends and developments.
• Identify the need for change and proactively generate practice innovations to implement solutions to better meet the needs of patient and the service.
• Develop and undertake activities to monitor the progress and efficiency of the service and owns practice.
• Continually assess and monitor risk in their own and others practice and challenge others if necessary.
• Critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research, evaluations and audits, and apply the information when seeking to improve practice.

2. Management and Leadership

• Contribute to the development to the specialist service and act as a change agent and facilitate the change process whilst encouraging other to be innovative and adaptable in the approach to change.
• Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes, and healthcare delivery systems.
• Review and update documentation and policies specially required by the team.
• To be conversant with all the relevant Trust policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.
• Lead the team in establishing and maintaining effective communication channels with the multi-disciplinary team, patients and their careers and external agencies.
• Toworkcollaborativelywithrepresentativesofother clinicalareas,disciplinesandservicestoprovideaseamlesspathwayofcare.
• Coordinate, lead and manage the activities of clinics on a day to day basis.
• Assisting with the investigation of complaints and lead on the development of action plans to address areas of concern.
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