Advanced Practitioner

Job summary

Cornerstone Practice is seeking Advanced Practitioners to come and join our thriving team as we expand our multi-disciplinary team to provide whole person care to our large patient population.

You will be responsible for the clinical assessment, treatment and/or referral or giving advice as appropriate to patients presenting with a wide spectrum of clinical conditions. You will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

Were interested to hear from enthusiastic Advanced Practitioners from any clinical background including Nursing, Paramedic, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy or other roles that might serve general practice well.

Main duties of the job

You will workwithin your professional boundaries, providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. You will demonstrate safe clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice. You will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process and hold a Non-Medical Prescribing qualification.

Working collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients and supporting the delivery of policy and procedures will be a daily requirement.

Patient care will be provided face to face, online, via telephone and through home visits as appropriate.

About us

Cornerstone Practice is a friendly team led by a strong GP Partnership, supported by an excellent management team. Celebrating 35 years in 2023, we have four sites (3 in Blackburn, 1 in Oswaldtwistle). As well as our 7 Partners, we have a team of excellent salaried GPs and healthcare professionals. We are an accredited training practice,training and supporting GP Registrars, ACPs, Practice Nurses and Clinical Pharmacists. We serve 26,500 patients and we particularly want to care for those living in deprived communities.

Blackburn is situated in a beautiful part of Lancashire, and our surgeries are all easily accessible from the M65.

Our strengths include:

• Active involvement with Primary Care Networks and our local GP Federation provider.
• Fortnightly clinical peer group meetings
• Routine quality improvement work
• Excellent reputation amongst local GP networks
• Indemnity costs covered
• High quality and well-motivated nursing teams and support staff on all sites
• Dedicated Quality Team
• EMIS Web, Patchs online access, SurgeryConnect integrated telephony