ACP Lead - Same Day Emergency Care

Job overview

ACP Lead - Same Day Emergency Care Band 8b Full time 37.5 hours per week Permanent contract **previous applicants need not apply** The ACP lead is a key member of the Urgent Care Management team, enabling the delivery of outstanding services in accordance with agreed objectives, targets, quality standards, controls and resource constraints as set out in the divisional business plan. Working with senior nursing/medical colleagues, the post holder will have a key role to play in the development of the strategic vision across the Trust. As an expert in their clinical area, the post holder will practice at a highly specialised and skilled level. They will lead in developing clinical practice, knowledge, skills and roles within the Trust, influencing improvements in care and patient outcomes.

The ACP Lead will be an expert resource, providing leadership in Urgent Care, ensuring patients and staff are safe, cared for and listened to. The ACP lead will lead the development and delivery of clinical and professional standards and the development of leadership capacity within the department ensuring that nurses, ACPs and AHPs and support staff provide excellent quality care with exceptionally high safety standards, treating all patients with dignity and respect. The post holder will form strong links with local higher education providers to enable the development of appropriate educational and training programmes for all clinical staff within their specialty.

Main duties of the job

• The Strategic Development and Leadership of ACP's within SDEC, junior clinical staff, junior nursing staff.
• Delivery of an approved advanced practice curriculum (national or local in absence) for trainee practitioners.
• Contribute to trust wide strategies surrounding performance and improvement.
• Contribute to work force planning and considerations around organisational systems affecting resilience and retention.
• Develop a directorate Faculty for Enhanced and Advanced Practice to provide a governance structure to the training and development of advanced practice across SDEC.
• Oversight of budgets for advanced practice within the directorate
• Develop robust clinical streams, alongside colleagues, aimed at safe patient care, experience and efficiency.
• Provide senior clinical cover across SDEC

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Demonstrates expert interpersonal skills in caring for patients and their families.
• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills in assessing and caring for patients and their families.
• Able to analyse, synthesise and action highly complex clinical information and situations to benefit the patients and families.
• Communicate sensitive and complex condition related information to patients, relatives and other members of the multidisciplinary team, ensuring that information is understood by all parties and delivered with empathy where required.
• Work directly with nurses, allied health professionals and other clinical health staff in all areas supporting and developing their skills in caring for patients.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and expertise in all relevant aspects of patients’ needs from initial assessment through acute in-hospital care to follow-up in primary care for patients.

Leadership

Act as expert lead clinician representing the Trust for regional developments in specialty and within the relevant profession.

• Demonstrate an appropriate leadership style and skills, which enable a multi-professional culture for learning and practice development

Be a skilled facilitator for staff, clinical practice and organisational development for speciality and broader issues.

• Provide clinical leadership across in anticipating and identifying key strategic issues and priorities for the profession, including development of new roles and subsequently acting as a facilitator in managing the change.