Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Monday - Sunday including bank holidays, 8am-8pm, mixed shift pattern - 8am -4pm; Early Shift, 12pm - 8pm; Late Shift & 8am - 8pm weekends (1 in 4) Oxleas Bexley Rapid Response/Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) have an exciting 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner post available. The role works across UCR and Virtual Wards. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, whilst providing clinical leadership and line management to junior colleagues within the integrated multi-professional team. The post holder will be an expert nurse with extensive clinical experience in the management of patients, and the ability to clinically lead a community team. We welcome dynamic applicants from adult Nursing and AHP backgrounds. This is an opportunity to join and further shape Bexley's UCR service. UCR teams provide urgent care to people in their homes which helps to avoid hospital admissions and enable people to live independently for longer. Through these teams, older people and adults with complex health needs who urgently need care, can get fast access to a range of health and social care professionals within two hours. This includes access to physiotherapy and occupational therapy, medication prescribing and reviews., The Directorate is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an innovative Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work as a member of the UCR team to support patients experiencing crisis ill health the team offer wider admission avoidance strategies. The successful applicant will be working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner supporting the UCR and Virtual Ward pathways to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and contribute to effective admission avoidance. The role incorporates high-level of advanced clinical assessment skills and use of the non-medical prescribing qualification to medically support complex patients within the community, presenting with a wide range of acute medical conditions. You will be required to demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process; identify gaps within the service and lead with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies. You will be actively involved in research and responsible for leading implementation of evidence based clinical changes as well as facilitating a positive team culture through effective clinical leadership, providing a clinical resource to colleagues as required and delivering training and education to the team and wider services to improve standards of service delivery.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, schools and people's homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care