Advanced Clinical Practitioner - 111 CAS

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust.

Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website.

Job overview

Advanced Clinical Practitioner – 111 Out of Hours Clinical Assessment Service

Band 8a £57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Bank Contract - Minimum of 23 hours per month

Are you an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner looking to support the care provided following telephone assessments within our out of hours (OOHs NHS 111 Clinical Assessment Service?

South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust as the commissioned provider of the NHS 111 and OOHs Clinical Assessment Service for Kent & Medway and Sussex regions is seeking an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team of GPs and prescribing Pharmacists as a senior clinical leader delivering expert autonomous practice within our 111 Clinical Assessment Service supporting patients in the out of hours period.

Working remotely within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you'll assess and manage patients presenting with complex, undifferentiated and potential high-risk presentations, making autonomous decisions that directly influence patient outcomes, urgent and emergency care utilisation and access to alternative care pathways.

Being a fully qualified advanced clinical practitioner with significant independent prescribing experience within the out of hours and urgent on the day primary care field, you would work within the team of senior clinicians that ensure patients presenting to the out of hours space are effectively managed through remote clinical assessment.

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As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (111 – Clinical Assessment Service), you'll work as a senior autonomous clinician within our Clinical Assessment Service, delivering expert clinical assessment, leadership and professional expertise.

Clinical Practice

You'll:

· Deliver advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis and management to patients presenting with complex, undifferentiated and potential high-risk presentations.

· Make autonomous clinical decisions in situations of complexity, uncertainty and clinical risk.

· Determine the most appropriate care pathway, including remote consultation, referral, or escalation to an emergency response.

· Prescribe and implement evidence-based treatment plans where appropriate.

· Provide expert clinical advice and support to clinicians across Integrated Urgent Care, including care home and community based nursing teams as well as ambulance clinicians exploring alternative non-conveyance pathways.

· Safeguard vulnerable patients while promoting person centred care and shared decision making.

· Communicate highly complex or sensitive information with empathy and professionalism.

Working for our organisation

At South East Coast Ambulance Service, every member of our team plays an important role in delivering exceptional care when people need us most.

As part of our Integrated Care team, you'll work alongside experienced clinicians across 111 and the OOHs Clinical Assessment Service, helping to shape innovation that improve outcomes for patients while supporting the wider NHS.

We're committed to supporting our people to thrive through learning, development and wellbeing, providing opportunities to continue developing your developed Advanced Practice career while working within a supportive and collaborative clinical environment.

Our benefits include:

• NHS Pension Scheme.
• Excellent learning and development opportunities.
• Occupational Health and Employee Assistance Programme.
• Award-winning wellbeing support.
• NHS staff discounts.

Other than in exceptional circumstances, the starting salary for staff new to the NHS will be the bottom point of the band to which they have been appointed.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (111 Clinical Assessment Service), you'll operate with a high level of professional autonomy, accountability and clinical expertise. Your responsibilities will include:

Clinical Responsibilities

· Undertake advanced holistic assessment across all age groups.

· Apply expert clinical reasoning in complex, uncertain or rapidly changing situations.

· Make autonomous clinical decisions that influence patient outcomes and system performance.

· Initiate, evaluate and adapt treatment plans, including prescribing a range of prescription only (including controlled medication within your regulated framework) medicines.

· Determine safe and appropriate patient pathways, balancing individual need with clinical risk and available resources.

· Provide senior clinical advice and decision support to colleagues.

· Lead on safeguarding, consent, mental capacity and patient safety considerations.

· Utilise digital clinical systems, including Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and Clinical Consultation Support Software, to document effective decision-making and facilitate effective onward electronic referral.

· Promote shared decision-making and person-centred care throughout every patient interaction.

Leadership Responsibilities

· Act as a visible senior clinical leader across Integrated Care services.

· Influence clinical practice, service development and operational performance.

· Lead quality improvement, governance and patient safety initiatives.

· Support the development of clinical pathways, policies and standard operating procedures.

· Represent the service within multidisciplinary and system-wide forums.

· Promote a culture of continuous learning, compassion and innovation.

Operational Responsibilities

· Support demand management and effective utilisation of urgent and emergency healthcare resources.

· Contribute to workforce deployment and service prioritisation.

· Support the analyse of clinical and operational data to as part of service improvement opportunities.

· Ensure effective stewardship of Trust resources.

Education Responsibilities

· Supervise and mentor clinicians across the service.

· Support education and professional development programmes.

· Support appraisal, capability development and workforce planning.

· Promote evidence-based practice and reflective learning.

Research Responsibilities

· Lead or contribute to research, audit and evaluation projects.

· Translate research findings into clinical practice and service improvement.

· Support the development of an evidence-based culture across the service.

· Maintain your own professional development across the four pillars of Advanced Practice.

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable.

We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [email protected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.

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If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicated Section 2 page on The Zone.