Advanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Urgent Community Response, Virtual Ward and Reablement Team within Nottingham CityCare Partnership.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner plays a pivotal role in delivering rapid, high-quality clinical assessment and intervention for adults experiencing an acute health or functional crisis in the community. The ACP provides expert autonomous practice to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, support safe and timely discharge, and enable effective reablement, ensuring people can remain safely at home wherever possible.

The postholder leads clinical decision-making within a multidisciplinary team, provides advanced assessment and treatment planning, prescribes medication where appropriate, and contributes to service development, staff training, and integrated working across health and social care partners.

The ACP carries clinical responsibility for a complex caseload, applying advanced investigative and analytical skills to lead safe, evidence based practice, support timely discharge planning across community settings, and provide specialist advice to colleagues across the multidisciplinary team.

The post holder will have a Trust-wide responsibility to promote clinical excellence in the care of patients presenting to their area by providing clinical advice and support to nursing staff and other health care professionals., The ACP is accountable for independent clinical assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with undiagnosed and undifferentiated conditions. They will practice at an advanced level demonstrating in depth knowledge and competence in all aspects of UCR/Virtual Wards, encompassing advanced clinical assessment, critical thinking and clinical management skills that are evidence based and deliver high quality patient centred care.

Within the role there will be a requirement to plan and direct the management of patients including accessing services within the multi-disciplinary team and wider health, social care, education, vocational and voluntary sector services as appropriate to the role.

The postholder will lead on the strategic development of Trust-wide services in their specialist area, working with other strategic and clinical leads as appropriate.

They will also lead and participate in education programmes designed to support other clinical staff skills within their speciality. The postholder will provide peer support to clinical staff working with patients from the direct caseload or those involved in the management of patients.

They will assist in the planning, co-ordinating and development of any newly implemented service plans as well as being responsible for ensuring that relevant legal and regulatory frameworks are acknowledged through local governance procedures.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives.

CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.