Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Acute Frailty SDEC / UCR

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Acute Frailty will be a highly experienced, knowledgeable, and educated member of the team who is able to work autonomously making high level decisions to treat health needs. Advanced level practice encompasses all four pillars including of clinical, education, research and management, but role is firmly grounded in direct care provision and clinical work with patients' families and populations. The post holder will be an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient, from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for frail elderly population on Same day emergency care. The post holder will also rotate into the CHFT Urgent Community Response team in order to meet service needs and to provide care closer to home, as part of this transformational role.,

• Assess individuals, families and carers holistically, using a range of different methods, such as physical assessment, history taking, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs assessments
• Communicate effectively with patients, family and carers, and the multidisciplinary team.
• Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to decide whether to refer patients for investigations and make diagnoses.
• Decide and carry out treatment, which may include the prescribing of medicines, or referring patients to an appropriate specialist.
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care.
• Assess and evaluate, with patients and /or carers, the effectiveness of the treatment and care provided and make changes as needed.
• Work autonomously within a wider health care team and as a lone practitioner. Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries and proactively develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes and healthcare delivery systems.
  
  We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.