Advanced Clinical Practitioner​/Trainee ACP Frailty

Responsibilities

• To act as an autonomous practitioner, making critical clinical decisions independently when diagnosing, monitoring and managing our frailty patients
• To independently prescribe and request additional diagnostics to improve and support frailty pathway, reducing unnecessary delays.
• The post holder will extend clinical practice and standards of care within the Frailty service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and contribute to service improvement in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.
• To improve outcomes for patients by improving frailty services and quality of care for frailty patients.
• To act as a resource for junior doctors and registered nurses requiring specialist support.
• To act as a resource for patients requiring specialist support.
• To act as an interface between medical practitioners, nursing staff, the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• To support medical staff in the management of patients with frailty.

An exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our Frailty team. The successful candidate will provide day to day expertise across the organisation, exercising advanced clinical skills, levels of judgement, discretion and decision‑making in specifically Frailty SDEC and the Frailty wards, demonstrated through, and supported by, professional portfolio evidence.

The role requires considerable tenacity and autonomous thinking to ensure that the right escalations, clinical actions and advice is made to ensure that the patient pathway to treatment is not subject to unnecessary delays.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross‑on‑Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends. More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work‑life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential. Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential." Our values –Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence– are at the heart of all we do.

We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.