Clinical Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Acute Care at Home Service, Staffordshire, is looking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP) with extensive experience to undertake the role of Service Clinical Lead, working alongside the current service clinical lead. The successful candidate will be innovative and dynamic in their leadership approach.

The successful candidate will provide strategic clinical leadership, supporting the Acute Care at Home Consultants, Head of Operations and Clinical Operational Managers to develop and maintain a gold standard acute care at home service. They will provide specialised, expert advice, education, and clinical expertise in order to meet the service vision and objectives.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide effective professional leadership and management for the Acute care at home Service Clinical teams which include the Unscheduled Care Call Centre (UCCC), Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS), Virtual Ward, Pharmacist and Quality Lead. The post holder will be a key stakeholder regarding policy, governance, service innovation and evaluation using advanced skills such as critical analysis and synthesis of information, advanced decision making, and change management.

The post holder will be the Service lead for advanced clinical practice and will be responsible for the Service development, recruitment, training, supervision and retention of the Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) within the Community Rapid Intervention Service (CRIS). The post holder will govern the standardisation of Advanced Practice/Advanced roles within the Acute Care at Home Service determining a training programme for Advanced Practice.They will ensure service compliance with Health Education England Multi-Professional Framework (2017) to ensure a robust, supported workforce from trainee ACP to qualified and beyond focusing on the four pillars of advanced clinical practice, as supported by key stakeholders across the collaborative partnership.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.