ACP and Nursing Clinical Lead - UCRT and Hospital at Home

Are you an experienced ACP with a passion for delivering high-quality patient care in the community? Or a ACP trainee in the last year of the MSc? Do you want to play a key role in shaping the future of urgent care services across Islington? We are seeking an enthusiastic ACP to join our Urgent Community Response Team. This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference by supporting residents to remain safely in their usual place of residence, reducing avoidable hospital admissions and improving patient outcomes.

The team also leads on the Islington Hospital at Home pathways which help get patients home sooner, improving their experience and recovery through acute hospital-level care in their own homes. The successful postholder will have community experience and demonstrate specialist clinical skills and knowledge in advanced clinical assessment. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will offer clinical expertise, guidance, management plans, clinical decision making, and discharge planning to acutely unwell patients.

Main duties of the job include:

• Practicing as a qualified ACP to provide patient-centred quality care.
• Working autonomously with continuing responsibility for proactively monitoring and managing patients on the caseload.
• Co-ordinating care and navigating the patient through pathways across the primary and secondary care interface.
• Contributing to service development and supporting innovative models of care.
• Acting as a clinical leader and role model to staff within the service.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

To deliver and participate in clinical care of patients, the postholder will:

• Provide a level of advanced and comprehensive assessment based on a specialist body of knowledge.
• Order and interpret investigations, laboratory tests, X-rays and act on results as appropriate.
• Initiate drug therapy/medication within the parameters of agreed clinical guidelines.
• Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies.
• Ensure that accurate documentation and records of patient care are kept.

Management and Leadership responsibilities include:

• Developing own leadership skills within the Advanced Clinical Practitioner role.
• Contributing to the development of a specialist service and acting as a change agent.
• Participating in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff.

Education and Training responsibilities involve:

• Identifying, planning and assisting in the implementation of goals for clinical development of staff.
• Providing support to ensure developmental requirements of junior staff are addressed.

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, all individual members of staff have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.