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Job overview

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Community Advanced Clinical Practitioner with strong clinical leadership skills who is passionate about providing high quality care and competent in managing chronic diseases, minor illnesses and telephone consultations. Working within unplanned Unplanned Services in North Lincolnshire the Community ACP will have a blended role supporting virtual ward and intermediate care. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding service working closely with the Community urgent response, Unscheduled Care, Intermediate care and the acute trust. Please note that if we receive a high volume of applicants we reserve the right to close the advert early.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) role is at the forefront of our Community Response Team developments with non-medical practitioner’s crossing professional boundaries, undertaking traditional medical roles and leading the way for inter-professional practice. The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will be able to assess and treat varied clinical cases, having advanced skills to assess the patient with a differentiated or undifferentiated clinical diagnosis. Advanced communication, problem-solving and decision-making skills will be used to initial assess and provide on-going patient care. Working within local and nationally agreed protocols and guidelines, the ACP exercises independent judgement to assess, investigate, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate the clinical care and management of Community patients. They work collaboratively within the multi-professional team and support the education and development of nursing, medical and allied-health professionals. The Community ACP will have a blended role supporting the Community  Urgent Response over 7 days, Intermediate Care, Virtual Ward and collaborate with Primary care. The long-term goal of the Community response team will be to develop wrap-around alternatives to hospital admission for Northern Lincolnshire residents in conjunction with Primary care.

Working for our organisation

NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.