Surgical and Urology ACP

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We are excited to advertise two posts for experienced Surgical and Urology Advanced Care Practitioners (ACP's). You will need to be qualified and practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner. As these are new roles in the Trust and Division, you will be pivotal in the development of this post.

The post holder will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education, and support to staff, patients, their families, and carers. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis, and treatment within an agreed scope of practice.

At launch, it is expected that this will be a Monday to Friday role with shift times, 10.00-18.00 or 12.00-20.00 hours; to support the known peak demand times of the on-call service.

Main Duties of the Job

You will lead the take in SDEC, directing the juniors whilst reporting to the on-call registrar and Consultant day-to-day.

1. Triage SDEC GP referrals and explore alternative pathways to avoid UEC attendance, e.g., navigate to hot clinics.
2. Support new ways of working that emphasize a more efficient and patient-focused service, ensuring the safe treatment, referral, and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
3. Responsible for leading the ongoing development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About Us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow, and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists, and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes, and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Job Responsibilities

Clinical

1. Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care.
2. Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation, and diagnosis of patients within their area of work.
3. Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
4. Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral. Manage own caseload and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices.
5. Participate in multidisciplinary clinics, ward rounds, patient reviews, and multidisciplinary team meetings.
6. Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/advice as per specialty and scope of practice.
7. Utilise scope of practice to undertake Non-Medical Prescribing role and provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group.
8. Provide a seamless, high-quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and review.
9. Lead in the development and updating of referral guidelines and policies for the service.
10. Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients, and their relatives/carers.
11. Ensure effective and accurate verbal or written handover of patients between healthcare professionals.
12. Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas.
13. Practice within the scope of professional registration (i.e., NMC, HCPC).

Person Specification Qualifications

• Professional registration
• Non-medical prescriber
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• IRMER
• Relevant MSc or Completed Advanced Clinical Practice MSc

Experience

• Significant post-registration specialty experience - to the level of advanced practice
• Enhanced clinical skills relevant to area of clinical practice
• Working as an autonomous practitioner
• Experience in writing policies and developing local guidance

Skills

• Patient-facing roles - able to understand an individual's communication, physical & emotional needs.
• Effective communication to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service, or support.

Attitude, Behaviours and Values

• Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives
• Always puts patients first and has a customer service focus

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.