Permanent Are you an experienced, motivated, and highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) looking for your next challenge?
Band 8a37.5 hoursPermanent Are you an experienced, motivated, and highly skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) looking for your next challenge?
We are seeking an exceptional ACP to join our dynamic Department of Medicine for Older People (DMOP) team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the development and delivery of innovative, evidence-based, frailty-attuned services designed to improve outcomes for older adults.
Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, you will contribute to the design and implementation of new models of care while practising autonomously at an advanced level. Using your expert clinical knowledge and advanced assessment skills, you will assess, diagnose, treat, and manage patients with complex health needs, supporting both admission avoidance and effective patient flow.
As an ACP, you will provide timely, high-quality care to patients presenting with acute medical conditions, frailty, and multiple comorbidities. You will act as a clinical leader, supporting service development, decision-making, and excellence in patient care.
The post holder will work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients, delivering high quality, person centred holistic care and be directly responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of older adults living with frailty and multiple comorbidities.
The ACP will ensure safe and timely discharge and/ or transfer of care of patients from or between hospitals and services and healthcare professionals, ensuring barriers to discharge / transfer are identified and acted upon appropriately, utilising the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills when dealing with complex, sensitive or emergency situations.
The post holder will support Lead ACP, Senior Management/Divisional Nurse Director/Clinical Director in the development of evidenced based services within DMOP, promoting interdisciplinary team and collaborative working practices across organisational boundaries.
The ACP will work proactively across the 4 pillars of advanced practice demonstrating receptiveness to challenge and support innovative service design and delivery.
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits We Offer To You
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
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