Lead HASCU Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the haematology department for a fixed term (12 months).
The role involves implementing and lead the innovative - Emergency Department bypass, a unique chance to be at the forefront of healthcare advancement.
It is expected that 50% of the postholder's time will be spent supporting the clinical component of direct patient care and supervising members of the team. This role is integral to our patient care and also involves a combination of professional consultancy, service development, clinical supervision, sector-wide work and continuous professional development, education and training, service development, research, and audit.
The post holder will have an operational focus and support the development of the ACP service. The Lead ACP will also be part of the haematology team, supporting the consultants in delivering care to patients admitted to the hospital. A multidisciplinary team approach will be essential, especially at night, to support the medical team when the HASCU workload allows. In addition, they will support the head of nursing in strengthening and leading the haematology nursing service within and across the Trust.
The post holder will be an experienced haematology nurse with an MSc in Advance Clinical Practice.
We welcome applications from practitioners with experience in other medical disciplines, such as emergency or general medicine.
Interview date: 30th September 2024, The post holder will be expected to lead the services, ensuring an effective and safe service aligned with the recommended guidelines. Support the ACP in the daily management and auditing processes and interact frequently with external and internal stakeholders. They will play a lead role in service development within the designated area, across the Trust and community.
The lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner will exercise a high degree of personal professional autonomy and make clinical judgements of the highest order to satisfy the job's expectations and demands.
The post holder will provide key clinical management in the facilitation and expansion of the haematology service. And will be responsible for the contribution to nursing policy and clinical service development within haematology service in line with the Trust's strategic.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, · To independently assess, order investigations, diagnose and discharge patients from their caseload. Assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and assess their health care needs.
· To be responsible for ordering necessary investigations and provide treatment and care individually, as part of a team, and through referral to other agencies.
· Case-find at-risk patients including emergency admissions and post operative complications to identify and manage medical and multidisciplinary complications promptly.
· Use expert theoretical and practical knowledge to refer on to other departments/services within or outside the Trust.
· Interpret and analyse complex clinical and non-clinical facts to improve quality of care for older people and facilitate discharge planning.
· Apply prevention strategies for adverse outcomes such as readmissions and prolonged inpatient stay.
· To provide a consultancy and clinical leadership function as required.
· To undertake a wide range of advanced clinical interventions, which include Advanced Life Support Skills and Independent Nurse Prescribing.
· Support and enable patients and carers to make informed decisions relating to their treatment and management.
· Review and update the documentation to improve the quality, accuracy and consistency of information recorded ensuring that the Trust is CNST compliant.
· Negotiate and facilitate the management of change in practices to achieve best practice in services.
· To develop and implement with nursing and consultant staff new policies and clinical guidance for new procedures.
· To support and facilitate the development of clinical skills for trainee advanced practitioners and nurses.
· Line manages the members of the haematology Advanced Clinical Practice team and support team as appropriate including clinical nurse specialists.
· Coordinate, lead and manage the activities of clinical environment on a day-to-day basis.
· Establish regular dialogue with local and tertiary referral centres sharing good practice.
· Participate in professional nursing initiatives as an invited member to the Directorate and trust nursing groups.
· Provide a high documentation standard according to the trust's documentation policy and the NMC guidance on standards for good record-keeping and information governance standards.
· To take a workload of the sickle cell clinic and work closely with the Lead Sickle Cell Consultant
2. Quality and Development
· Work closely with the appropriate clinical leads and service managers to ensure all local, corporate, and national initiatives and targets related to speciality are met.
· Leading a national working party across multiple disciplines to ensure the same researched and evidence-based treatment and care is given to complex patients at other centres throughout England.
· Involved in leading the implementation of nursing developments/ initiatives introduced by the National Network or bodies.
· To utilise information systems to aid regular clinical role audits and provide an activity analysis and specialist report every quarter.
· To provide expert input to the Trust's quality strategy by expressing the patient's needs via a whole systems approach rather than a uni-professional view.
· Experience facilitating change by collaborating with stakeholders within the specialist areas, across other professions, and intra- and inter-organisations to produce innovative practice and service development that shows improved patient outcomes. Perform and report on quality assurance measurements of the new initiatives relating to service within the Trust and relevant agencies.
· Identify and take forward the specific contribution nurse Practitioners within the service can make to the future development of the service.
· Lead in the development of nursing practice guidelines, policies
· Coordinate ongoing data collection, audit and quality assurance, providing service feedback.
· Provide a high documentation standard according to the trust's documentation policy and the NMC guidance on standards for good record-keeping and information governance standards.
3. Management and Leadership
· Implement development programs for the specialist service, act as a change agent, and facilitate the change process while encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in their approach to change.
· Work across professional, organisational and system boundaries to develop and sustain new partnerships and networks to influence and improve health, outcomes, and healthcare delivery systems.
· Review and update documentation and policies specially required by the team.
· To be conversant with all the relevant Trust policies and procedures and ensure they are correctly implemented.
· Lead the team in establishing and maintaining effective communication channels with the stakeholders, multi-disciplinary team, patients, their careers, and external agencies.
· To collaborate with representatives of other clinical areas, disciplines and services to provide a seamless care pathway.
· Coordinate, lead and manage the clinic activities on a day-to-day basis.
· Assisting with the investigation of complaints and leading in developing action plans to address areas of concern.
· To lead in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff in the haematology service.
· To represent the Trust on National forums related to the role and Advanced Clinical Practice and Haematology.
· Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes safety and quality.
· To work with the Head of Nursing in relation to governance in the service and other tasks delegated within the haematology service.
4. Information management
· Adhere to confidentiality at all times with sensitive personal data.
· Responsible for systematically monitoring investigations and appointments in collaboration with administration and managerial staff.
· Ensure compliance with care pathways and service development.
· Provide reports of the statistics, service and practice developments when required.
· Provide high standards of documentation by the Trust documentation policy., · Be a key stakeholder in developing and delivering national educational programs to support workforce development and staff retention.
· Provide education and role modelling for medical and surgical teams as required, including professional development.
· Enable patients/clients to learn by designing and coordinating the implementation of plans appropriate to their preferred approach to learning, motivation and developmental stage.
· Develop robust governance systems by contributing to developing and implementing evidence-based protocols, documentation processes, standards, policies and clinical guidelines through interpreting and synthesising information from various sources and promoting their use in practice.
· Work in collaboration with others to plan and deliver interventions to meet the learning and development needs of their own and other professions.
· Advocate and contribute to developing an organisational culture that supports continuous learning and development, evidence-based practice and succession planning.
· Embrace the current awareness of local regional, national and international perspectives in clinical speciality.
· Provide training and education opportunities with the team, within the trust, local and national areas.
· Maintain own professional development through annual/bi-annual appraisal of clinical performance and the production of a professional development plan.
· Assess educational needs and take steps to keep up to date with clinical and nursing developments in line with requirements by the NMC.
6. Audit and research
· Contribute/assist in the development of multidisciplinary research and clinical audit in the haemoglobinopathy and haematology service and, implementing effective and evidence-based practice.
· To enhance research skills within the department and provide support and appropriate implementation strategies for changes in clinical practice.
· Participate and contribute to any ongoing regional and national research to evaluate the effectiveness of care strategies related to the patient experience within emergency and unscheduled care.
· To share best practices through publications and attendance/presentation opportunities at the conference level.
7. Resource Management
· To apply sound financial evaluation to proposed service developments.
· Maintain accurate records in relation to equipment used and maintained by the haemophilia and haematology service team.
8. Risk Management
· To ensure that systems are in place to manage, reduce and prevent clinical risk to self and others within the RDC department.
· To monitor incidents highlighted by emergency team members and communicate to appropriate areas to address risk issues.
· Promote best practice in health & safety, utilising unit and Trust policies.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.