Acute Care Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary duties and areas of responsibility:

Clinical

Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways, or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.

Visit patients at home if required.

Make professionally autonomous decisions for which he/she is accountable.

Provide a first point of contact within the Practice for patients presenting, both in the Practice, digitally and over the phone, for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, making use of skills in history taking, physical examination, problem solving and clinical decision making, to establish a diagnosis and care management plan.

Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings and reports.

Prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework.

Provide safe, evidence based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.

Refer patients directly to other services and agencies as appropriate.

Provision of a holistic service to patients and their families, developing, where appropriate, an on-going plan or care and support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.

Contribute to the development and delivery of specialist primary care services, such as long term disease management.

Work with the Practice team to ensure that National Service Frameworks are being delivered.

Contribute to the Practices achievement of its quality targets to maintain the high standards of patient care and service delivery.

Contribute to the development and set up of new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services.

Be aware of and contribute to planning and delivery of practice based commissioning.

Administration and professional responsibilities:

To contribute and participate in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and clinical supervision.

Participate in continuing professional development opportunities to ensure that up to date evidence based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained.

Develop and maintain a Personal Development Plan.

Maintenance of professional registration.

To work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice, and to provide a high standard of professional conduct and nursing care at all times in accordance with the NMC. OR Ensure that professional standards are maintained and within the guidance by the Department of Health, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and the College of Paramedics (COP).

Record accurate consultation data in patients records in accordance with the latest NHS guidance and other pertinent standards, ensure the clinical computer system is kept up to date with accurate details recorded and amended.

Keep up to date with relevant health related policy and work with the practice team to consider the impact and strategies for implementation.

Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the Practice.

Pro-actively promote the role of the ACP or ANP within the Practice and externally to stakeholders and agencies.

To encourage and develop teamwork within the Practice.

Contribute to the identification and management of nursing care risks on a continuing basis.

Participate in practice meetings.

Participate in audits as appropriate.

Contribute to the setting up and improving practice systems for monitoring and measuring performance against Clinical Governance and Quality Indicator targets.

Ensure practice policies are fully implemented.

To advise on policy within the continually changing environment of Primary Health Care delivery.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• We may consider applications from non-prescribers and those who have not yet completed Level 7 module learning or undertaken a full MSc. We can support new to general practice clinicians with training and learning support, however this will be reflected within the salary range.
• Candidates must have a current professional registration with one of the following: NMC, HCPC, or GPhC

Desirable

• You Will Ideally Need:
• Professional Registration: NMC, HCPC, or GPhC
• Independent Prescriber: Registered as a non-medical prescriber
• Education: Minimum of two Level 7 modules, including clinical assessment skills or MSc (ACP)
• Experience: Autonomous practice in multi-professional teams
• Strong clinical decision-making and assessment skills
• Or/ and
• Experienced paramedic or nurse practitioner (minimum of 3 years within a paramedic/ general practice nursing role)
• Ideally with some general practice experience or knowledge

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Tamar Valley Health

Address

Haye Road

Callington

Cornwall

PL17 7AW

Employer's website

https://www.tamarvalleyhealth.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)