Advanced Clinical Practitioner

B8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) / B7 Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP).

A sensational opportunity has arisen to join a well-established award-winning, innovative, and dynamic Respiratory Service.

We are on a journey expanding our successful teams to enhance the Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward and have secured new funding.

This final post is an opportunity not to be missed.

We welcome applications from ACP, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, or a Trainee ACP to work within this dynamic and progressive team. The focus of the role is pivotal to the development of the acute respiratory virtual ward, providing expert respiratory care to patients on presentation to hospital, during their admission or in their usual place of care on the virtual ward. The role will work closely with a wider MDT and specialist teams including other virtual ward services.

We are looking for someone who is highly skilled and knowledgeable in complex respiratory care and is committed to delivering and ensuring others deliver an excellent, evidence-based service. As part of the senior team, you will liaise with a variety of key stakeholders including primary care., The Virtual Ward is an exciting new service offering home based care to patients who would otherwise occupy a hospital bed. The care is delivered by a specialist workforce using face to face assessments and an integrated pathway to safely support patients in their own home.

The developing Virtual Ward is looking at technology to assist with virtual assessment and monitoring to support the specialist in caring for people at home. Working closely with other regional experts, you will work both independently and as part of the supportive multi-Disciplinary team; providing care that is underpinned by a culture of research and innovation.

This last post will be predominantly based at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough the role will be to assess, diagnose and implement a treatment plan for patients with respiratory illness, facilitating virtual ward care where appropriate and desired. Integration into the wider respiratory team is essential, therefore, some time will be spent working from community sites and facilitating domiciliary care (approximately 4 shifts per month).

The role requires flexibility in working patterns and is planned to cover a 7-day service in the future.

Interviews are scheduled for the 25th November 2024. Alternative dates may be considered but please state this on your application.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.