Band 8a Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

The Urgent Community Response (UCR) team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides a two-hour urgent response to patients in their own home that are experiencing a crisis. The UCR team works closely with the Care Co-ordination centre and the Virtual Wards to avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise and leadership to the Urgent Community Response team, Care Coordination Centre (CCC), Virtual Wards, Early Intervention Model and Community Nursing Teams. They will be required to support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
The ACP will autonomously provide highly specialised, evidence-based care within the community as part of the integrated health and social care community team and will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in assessment, management and treatment across a range of acute and chronic presentations., 1. Work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council/Allied Health Professional (AHP) Code of Professional Conduct. The postholder will be 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.
2. Provide clinical leadership and expertise (in both telephone triage and managing referrals through the Care Co-ordination Centre).
3. Receive and triage referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral.
4. Participate and lead team safety huddles, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
5. Act as a first contact, exercising a high degree of professional autonomy and critical judgment in providing expert advanced clinical assessment, individualised patient care, examination, investigation/diagnostic procedures and diagnosis of patients with with undiagnosed and undifferentiated needs.
Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate onward referral or discharge of patients at the end of the care episode Make direct referrals as appropriate for medical assessment and diagnostic procedures

Working for our organisation
Maintain professional registration by developing own knowledge and skills to ensure delivery of evidence based advanced clinical practice.
Provide and receive clinical supervision in order to continuously grow own knowledge and improve the quality of care to patients.
Act as a specialist source of knowledge, teaching and facilitating learning in order to develop the skills of the Clinical Teams with a responsibility for monitoring their practice and competence.
Support students (pre and post registration) whilst on placements by providing a quality learning environment.
Responsible for leading in devising and delivering training and development for clinicians across the division to assist with quality assurance and governance.
Provide educational and training opportunities to students and colleagues, ensuring placements meet the relevant elements of their learning outcomes.
Assess the competence of other staff to undertake expanded roles to enhance the delivery of patient care.
Lead and actively participate in the delivery of educational programmes for all grades of nursing, medical and allied health professional staff.
Recognise the limits of own professional practice and competence, undertake further training, learning and academic qualifications as required to maintain own specialist knowledge.
Adapt clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Relationships
To establish effective working relation with the following:
· Staff within the professional group
· Clinical Team Leaders
· Service Managers
· Heads of Service/General Managers
· Clinical and Divisional Directors
· GP's
· Local Authority partners
· Divisional Director of Nursing and Therapies
· Care Home Managers
· Social Care

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a 'Great Place to Work'. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
+ Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
+ Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
+ Discounts for local and national retailers
+ Dedicated well-being services for all employees
+ Flexible working where possible