Advanced Clinical Practitioner

An exciting new development for our community services LOROS Hospice is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our ICSPC Team providing expert, compassionate care for people with complex palliative and end of life care needs. This new role is aimed at increasing the responsiveness of our community team across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Working alongside palliative medicine consultants, neighbourhood teams and wider health and social care partners, you will practice autonomously at an advanced level, undertaking assessment, diagnosis, prescribing, care planning and clinical management. You will play a key role in supporting people to remain in, or return to, their preferred place of care, helping to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and support timely discharge.

You will also provide visible clinical leadership, expert advice, supervision and education across hospice and community services, whilst contributing to audit, research and evidence-based service improvement.

We are looking for a registered healthcare professional with advanced clinical skills, strong decision-making ability and experience in palliative, end of life, cancer or complex community care. You will be compassionate, confident working autonomously and committed to delivering high quality, person-centred care across organisational boundaries.

Main duties of the job

Practise autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, undertaking expert assessment, clinical examination, differential diagnosis, clinical decision-making, prescribing, care planning and management for people with complex and unstable palliative and end of life care needs.

Provide advanced clinical assessment and decision-making across community settings, including patients' homes, care homes, community clinics and other appropriate locations.

Work collaboratively with the three Palliative Medicine Consultants and other ACPs to provide senior clinical expertise across the three neighbourhood areas. Provide senior clinical support to the approximately twenty five CNSs within the Community Specialist Palliative Care Service, enabling timely escalation and access to advanced clinical decision-making.

Prescribe medicines safely and effectively within professional competence, legal frameworks and agreed LOROS policies. Recognise and manage clinical risk, including situations requiring urgent escalation to medical, emergency or other specialist services. Make ethical, evidence-based decisions confidently and competently when faced with clinical complexity and uncertainty.

LOROS Hospice is a local charity and every year we care for over 2,500 people across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We deliver free, high-quality, compassionate care and support to terminally ill patients, their family and carers.