Therapy Advanced Practitioner – Front Door and Frailty
Therapy Advanced Practitioner - Front Door and Frailty
Band 8a (option for a Trainee Band 7 Advanced Practitioner)
Full time 37.5 hpw
An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint a Therapist to be based at either Lincoln County Hospital or Pilgrim Hospital. The role will have a Trust-wide contract to Lead and work as an Advanced Practitioner at the front door.
The post holder will have experience of successfully leading others. We are looking for someone who enjoys the pace of life in a busy acute hospital and has the energy to drive change and service improvements and who will be prepared to invest their energy into supporting the leadership team in the development of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation services.
The Therapy and Rehabilitation Clinical Business Unit is made up of a fantastic team who work on the wards, in out-patients and in the community settings across Lincolnshire. Our aim being to provide high quality and efficient care for the Lincolnshire population who require support from acute therapy and rehabilitation services.
You will be fully supported in this role by the Professional Lead Occupational and Physio Therapists. You will integrate with a well-respected Therapy leadership group.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for service delivery as an Advanced Practitioner.
The post holder will at all times, demonstrate a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making in the speciality of emergency care and frailty, in the emergency departments.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership for the therapy team and frailty team working at the front door.
The post holder will be an expert therapy practitioner and leader in the field of frailty and front door therapy services.
The Advanced Practitioner (AP) will use specialist knowledge and skills to provide healthcare autonomously to patients in their specialty area.
The post holder will have a Trust-wide responsibility to promote clinical excellence.
The post holder will lead on service transformation with the emphasis on delivering services fit for the future in frailty and front door therapy and in the reduction in hospital admission.
To act as the lead clinical representative on agreed clinical and service development groups and boards.
To work collaboratively with all stakeholders across the hospital and community, ensuring the delivery of the clinical KPI's.
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
Job responsibilities
What should you do next?
Have a look at the job description and if you like what you see then apply today. Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to work with a great team in a supportive environment within a great institution. Your NHS needs you!!!
Person Specification
Previous Experience
- Can effectively demonstrate delivery of the 4 pillars of advanced practice through a portfolio
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Effective working at an advanced level of practice.
- Evidence of working in a complex, challenging and changing environments
- Evidence of managing complex, sensitive information and adjusting mode of communication to enable patient needs to be met
- Evidence of working under pressure and to deal with emergency situations safely and effectively
- Substantial post registration relevant experience working autonomously at an advanced level and can demonstrate transferrable skills.
- Experience of clinical leadership.
- Experience of leading evidenced service improvement and innovation through service/practice development initiatives, audit or research.
- Evidence of service improvement or changes to practice through practice development initiatives, audit or research.
- Effective leadership and management skills.
- Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working.
- Evidence of skilled written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
- Able to deal with the challenge of developing and embedding advanced roles in existing multi-professional teams.
- Can demonstrate multi-professional working and working across organisational boundaries.
- Evidence of professional and clinical accountability in relation to advance level, autonomous practice.
- Experience of work in Virtual Wards
- Experience of work using telephone/remote triage
Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes
- Knowledge of local and national healthcare agendas/strategy and policies and how they relate to the specific service.
- In depth service specific knowledge which underpins advanced level practice.
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework:
- Understand the legal, ethical and professional responsibilities and accountability concerning advanced level, autonomous practice.
- Awareness and knowledge of the dignity in care agenda.
Specific Requirements
- Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner, using clinical decision-making skills through prioritising and analysing complex health conditions.
- Ability to undertake computer and other equipment skills.
- Ability to schedule academic workload and work commitments
- Be able to travel in the Lincolnshire community and hospitals
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
- Evidence of multidisciplinary teaching
Qualifications
- Current Professional registration within area of practice
- Evidence of level 7 study, or equivalent experience demonstrated via specialist training, experience and/or short courses.
- MSc appropriate to Advanced Practice or HEE supported route e-portfolio for Advanced Practice or a requirement to undertake an MSc in Advanced Practice.
- Safeguarding - level 3 or willingness to undertake.
- Teaching and Assessing course (e.g. Mentor Preparation, SLIP, Clinical Educator Course, PGCE), SSSA or a willingness to complete.
- Independent Non-Medical Prescriber (role specific)
- Highly developed specialist knowledge in a relevant field.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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