Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Acute Medicine

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join our dynamic Medical Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit. As an ACP, you will play a critical role in providing timely, high-quality care to patients presenting with acute medical conditions. This is an exciting opportunity to work autonomously, using advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose, and manage a wide range of urgent and emergency presentations, supporting both admission avoidance and patient flow., Responsible for providing advanced clinical care and expertise in care delivery including judgement, discretion and decision-making to patients as per individual scope of practice and through the advanced clinical competency framework provided by the MSc programme and specialty credentialing e.g. RCEM.

Work autonomously within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care.

Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients within their area of work.

Appropriately treat patients, for safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.

Receive referrals including direct patient referral. Manage own caseload and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices.

Participate in multidisciplinary clinics; ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/advice as per speciality and scope of practice. Using agreed protocols of clinical practice and professional guidelines. This service may be provided within an acute secondary healthcare facility or in primary, community or home settings.

Undertake diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations.

Undertake Non Medical Prescribing role and advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management.

Working for your organisation

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

oBetween 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays

oNHS pension scheme membership

oSalary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further

oNHS Staff discounts

oCycle to work scheme

o Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt