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Job overview

Our team is growing again! We have an exciting opportunity for another ACP to join our team in beautiful Herefordshire, within our Integrated Care Division. 

We are looking for an ACP to mainly support our Virtual Wards and Urgent Response Services. With some possible opportunity to work with our Complex Long Term Conditions Team or frailty wards in the community hospital. 

We support people in their own homes (wherever they live including residential care) to bring the healthcare they need to them, offering holistic assessment and interventions working closely with our community teams to ensure the person in our care has a smooth journey through our services, receiving the high quality health care that we all want for ourselves and our families. 

Working patterns will be between 8am and 8pm over 7 days per week.  You will be responsible for managing patients in their own homes to help avoid hospital admission. 

The role will primarily be working in our Virtual Wards and Urgent Community Response teams but some opportunity to work with our complex long term conditions service also. 

Band 6-8a dependant on experience (preference for candidate who already holds MSc in Advanced Clinical practice and has experience in the field. but considering will be given for the right candidate to complete the MSc via an apprentice with our team). 

Main duties of the job

To practice as highly specialist clinician for patients with complex health conditions and/or at risk of imminent hospital admission. To offer holistic assessment and treatment for patients in their own home (whenever appropriate) to maximise health and wellbeing and minimise reliance on in-patient services and primary care physicians.

you will use your core skills to work to the full scope of our practice to ensure the most effective treatment and possible outcomes possible. 

There will be ongoing support for CPD and acquiring competencies relevant to the field. 

We support the daily function of the Urgent Community Response and Virtual Wards services, offering clinical support on triage of referrals and clinical assessments to our colleagues as required.

We work closely as a team to ensure the multiple facets of our role can be undertaken with a supportive and flexible dynamic and to maintain highly specialist clinical knowledge and skills.

Our dynamic team strive for excellence in all areas of work across the 4 pillars of Advanced Clinical Practice, sharing an ethos of lifelong learning, holistic patient care, team working and professionalism. 

Working for our organisation

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.