Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Neurology

An excellent and exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) within the Neurology service within The James Cook University Hospital. The post holder will be working autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) and will work under direct or indirect supervision of senior medical colleagues, at an advanced clinical level in the direct delivery of high-quality care making critical clinical decisions based on advanced clinical skills assessment. Evidencing across all four pillars of advanced clinical practice as set out by Health Education England (2017). The post holder will provide clinical leadership and support within the nursing/AHP teams in developing the service to improve the patient experience, supporting Consultants with day-to-day clinical activity (to be determined according to need of specialist area). This post can be appointed as a training post, there is an expectation that the post holder will undergo all relevant training to reach qualification as an ACP., The post holder will demonstrate the knowledge and skills of a competent practitioner and will:

• Manage the clinical care for patients with neurological conditions
• Undertake comprehensive physical and mental health assessments, analysing differential diagnoses and decide on the appropriate treatment based on clinical findings
• Prescribe medication as appropriate, order investigations, refer to other professionals for tests or examinations and admit or discharge autonomously within the scope of agreed clinical guidelines.
• Deliver therapeutic Botox for the treatment of neurological conditions
• Perform Lumber Punctures on a semi-urgent and elective patients
• Provide support and supervision to the Neurology Day Unit on a day to day basis.
There may be times when the Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner may be asked to support clinical delivery in other clinical areas within the directorate.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust Values and Behaviourso Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skillso Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role After you complete these four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7