Job summary
Are you interested in working in Primary Care? Are you keen to work across traditional health and social care boundaries?
Witterings Medical Centre is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to be part of our multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team of professionals working across the Witterings and Birdham footprint. This is open to anyone with relevant registration. This is an exciting and unique opportunity to be at the forefront of the delivery of our new Ageing Well model of care. Working both independently, and within our multi agency team, the role will operate across the traditional health and social care organisational boundaries, including our GP practice partners, to deliver a holistic approach to acute on day / rapid response services.
We are looking for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner with a strong interest in working in a GP setting and who aspires to provide a continuous improvement approach to delivering responsive, safe, patient-centred and effective care within a team environment.
Main duties of the job
The service supports patients with multifaceted health problems living in their own homes as well as in care homes. The service liaises with care home staff, carers, families and colleagues to maintain and maximise individualised patient-centred care (including advanced care planning). The successful post holder will work autonomously within their professional boundaries to:
• Undertake comprehensive health assessments, initial history taking, clinical assessment, physical examination, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care
• Use advanced clinical decision making and assessment skills, coordinate care planning and initiate onward referrals as appropriate
• Demonstrate sound safe clinical decision–making.
About us
Witterings Medical Centre is a continually developing practice,
embracing a modern approach to delivering high-quality care with a multi-team
approach to provide care now and for future generations .
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will act autonomously within their
professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, video/telephone
consultations and home visits.
The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and
agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical
advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and
excellence.
The ACP will need to prioritise and triage the
needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for
investigations in the appropriate manner.
The post holder will be an experienced nurse who holds an appropriate,
specific, advanced professional qualification with the ability to use skills,
knowledge and competencies in order to be responsible and accountable for
managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging
patients as appropriate.
Job responsibilities:
- Work
as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality
care.
- Carries out clinical practice at an
advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements &
knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.
· Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based
care
- Triage and treat patients, performing
specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to
other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as
appropriate.
· Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and
carers/relatives are involved.
- Prescribing
and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in
accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice
protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
- Diagnose and manage acute and chronic
conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a
management plan.
· Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed
protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
- Assess,
diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who
require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
- Refers patients to other members of the
multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other
organisations as necessary.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will act autonomously within their
professional scope of practice providing care for patients face to face, video/telephone
consultations and home visits.
The post holder will operate within their own sphere of competence and
agreed acceptable limits of practice to provide expert professional clinical
advice to patients, carers and colleagues, ensuring clinical safety and
excellence.
The ACP will need to prioritise and triage the
needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for
investigations in the appropriate manner.
The post holder will be an experienced nurse who holds an appropriate,
specific, advanced professional qualification with the ability to use skills,
knowledge and competencies in order to be responsible and accountable for
managing patient caseloads for treatments, referral, admission and discharging
patients as appropriate.
Job responsibilities:
- Work
as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver safe and high quality
care.
- Carries out clinical practice at an
advanced level using expert clinical skills, critical judgements &
knowledge to deliver appropriate and safe care.
· Delivery of care in line with NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based
care
- Triage and treat patients, performing
specialist assessment of their needs and make referrals as necessary to
other members of the primary and secondary health care teams as
appropriate.
· Co-ordinate the planning and delivery of care ensuring patients and
carers/relatives are involved.
- Prescribing
and reviewing medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in
accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice
protocols and within the scope of qualified practice.
- Diagnose and manage acute and chronic
conditions, including drug and non-drug based treatment methods into a
management plan.
· Request diagnostic investigations and interpret within agreed
protocols e.g. x-ray, blood tests, scans, etc.
- Assess,
diagnose and treat patients in practice premises or their own home who
require medical attention and/or refer to appropriate agency.
- Refers patients to other members of the
multi-disciplinary practice teams, secondary care organisations and other
organisations as necessary.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or,
- Paramedic registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or
- Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Registered as an independent nonmedical prescriber.
- A minimum of 2 modules at Level 7. One module must have included assessment of clinical examination skills
Desirable
- MSc (Advanced Practice)
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous work experience in Primary Care
- Post registration experience (including evidence) of working in any of the following clinical areas;
- Accident & Emergency
- Primary Care environments
- Minor Injuries / Illness Units
- Acute specialties
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of relevant and continuing professional development activity and learning
- Evaluates the appropriateness, safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice
- Motivation, dependability and commitment to team working and development
- Flexibility, commitment and adaptability to deliver a quality service
- Ability to respect and value the opinions of others
- Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
- Evidence of autonomous working and the skills in physical assessment required, diagnosis and treatment
- Ability to demonstrate clinical expertise and knowledge of audit
- Shows critical reasoning skills and decision making
- Well-developed data gathering and IT skills
- Fully understanding of equal opportunities, diversity and cultural issue which may arise in the role
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to analyse data and information, drawing out implications for the individual patient/impact on care plan
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communication pathways within the organisation, with commissioners, other providers and key external stakeholders
Desirable
- Skills in training and education
- Work as an independent prescriber, or willing to train to achieve this qualification
- Experience within A&E, Urgent Care and Primary Care environments
- Experience in use of clinical software and coding
- Experience using SystmOne
- Knowledge and awareness of current professional nursing issues, e.g. clinical governance, NICE guidance
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or,
- Paramedic registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC) or
- Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Registered as an independent nonmedical prescriber.
- A minimum of 2 modules at Level 7. One module must have included assessment of clinical examination skills
Desirable
- MSc (Advanced Practice)
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Previous work experience in Primary Care
- Post registration experience (including evidence) of working in any of the following clinical areas;
- Accident & Emergency
- Primary Care environments
- Minor Injuries / Illness Units
- Acute specialties
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of relevant and continuing professional development activity and learning
- Evaluates the appropriateness, safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice
- Motivation, dependability and commitment to team working and development
- Flexibility, commitment and adaptability to deliver a quality service
- Ability to respect and value the opinions of others
- Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
- Evidence of autonomous working and the skills in physical assessment required, diagnosis and treatment
- Ability to demonstrate clinical expertise and knowledge of audit
- Shows critical reasoning skills and decision making
- Well-developed data gathering and IT skills
- Fully understanding of equal opportunities, diversity and cultural issue which may arise in the role
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to analyse data and information, drawing out implications for the individual patient/impact on care plan
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communication pathways within the organisation, with commissioners, other providers and key external stakeholders
Desirable
- Skills in training and education
- Work as an independent prescriber, or willing to train to achieve this qualification
- Experience within A&E, Urgent Care and Primary Care environments
- Experience in use of clinical software and coding
- Experience using SystmOne
- Knowledge and awareness of current professional nursing issues, e.g. clinical governance, NICE guidance
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
