Job Description

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust are recruiting ACPs in Urgent and Emergency Care (ACP-UEC) to work within our Specialist Practitioner base located in Taunton.



As an ACP-UEC you will be responsible for providing senior clinical leadership, responding to the full array of emergency calls received to the Emergency Operations Centres via 999, 111 or care coordination hubs.



You could be caring for an elderly faller with a UTI and prescribing antibiotics, delivering palliative care to an end stage heart failure patient, or could be deployed to a cardiac arrest or major trauma incident.



The ACP-UEC will provide remote clinical assessment (triage) to patients and their carers accessing the service, provide senior clinical advice to managers, junior colleagues, and volunteers, and deploy to incidents where their skillset will offer maximal benefit.



You need to be an advanced level practitioner holding a HCPC, NMC or GPhC registration, MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice (or similar) and a prescribing annotation. You will be supported to engage in all pillars of advanced practice, and will be supported to apply for a digital badge where you do not already hold. You must hold a contemporary portfolio demonstrating capability across urgent and emergency care.



For more information please review the supporting documentation.

Please Note:

This is not a training post.



A summary of the main roles and responsibilities are displayed here, please review the full job description and person specification for additional information.



To fulfill the expectations and core capabilities of an AP as set out in the Trust AP job description. W orking autonomously to an advanced level providing high quality patient care.



Utilise the four pillars of advanced practice to support delivery of Trust objectives keeping with Trust values.



To provide remote senior clinical assessment for patients and their families/carers when presenting to the ambulance service and/or when deployed and working as part of a care coordination hub.



To manage patients presenting to the ambulance service completing full episodes of care through hear and treat or referring to alternative services as required e/g ambulance face to facce, ED or GP.



To provide senior clinical support, supervision and clinical validation to operational colleagues, for instance registered and non registered clinicians and volunteers.



To see, treat, discharge and/or refer patients presenting with undifferentiated presentations across the lifespan and acuity of primary, urgent and emergency care including responding to the full array of 999 presentations as determined by the EOC and local management teams, where required in response to internal and external pressures.



To provide senior clinical visibility for EOC colleagues and trainee or qualified Specialist Practitioners in Emergency and Urgent care



At South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) we have a culture where everyone is valued for being themselves. Our aim is to work together to promote the most inclusive environment possible, which attracts people from the widest range of backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work that we do together, for the benefit of all of our employees, our patients and the communities we serve. We offer flexible working opportunities, inclusive policies and a range of feedback mechanisms to support individuals and to enable a positive, welcoming environment where our people and their careers can thrive in.



We employ over 5,000 employees mainly clinical, operational and emergency response staff as well as supporting roles. We also employ Doctors and volunteers which include community first responders and fire co-responders.



We take all the steps needed to provide the most compassionate patient care possible whilst also providing an enjoyable and safe place to work. We actively promote a positive set of behaviours as being key to our performance both individually and collectively. Our recruitment, selection and screening processes are designed to uphold these standards and we invite all our candidates to actively share with us through these processes how they will bring these behaviours to life.



Please see the attached Job description for full details of this roles main responsibilities and the criteria required.