Advanced Care Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

As an advanced practitioner this post holder will lead our team of Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) First Contact Practitioner (FCP) colleagues working collaboratively across the PCN to play a crucial role in clinical governance, building capacity and capability and providing resolution and critical thinking to some challenging patient diagnosis or issues. This role will primarily work initially with our care home residents but will support development plans for a wider Proactive Care Team across our practices.

Job Summary

While operating at an advanced practitioner level in your area of expertise, Nursing, Clinical Pharmacy, First Contact Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Podiatry, Occupational Therapy, Paramedicine) you will lead and drive forward service improvements and clinical governance alongside seeing patients face to face. The PCN will greatly benefit from your level of knowledge, skills, experience, and leadership to build capacity and capability across the network.

Key Areas of Responsibility

To lead the multi-disciplinary team across the PCN to assess and triage patients, including same day triage.

Provide definitive treatment such as the prescription of medications in accordance with guidelines (locally and nationally) and make referrals to other members of the primary care team.

Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

Undertake complex decision making to inform the diagnoses, investigation, and complete the management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.

Proactively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting patient.

Leading on MDT work to achieve on the PCN DES, associated IIF KPIs and related QOF indicators.

Building capacity through effective leadership

Provide clinical supervision to others in clinical roles within primary care such as first contact practitioners and personalised care roles.

Risk Management and Quality Assurance

Ensure robust clinical governance is in place for your practice which includes regular audit and evaluation, supervision, and CPD.

Management of workload and personal development

Act on own initiative in prioritising and managing workload, delegating tasks appropriately and referring to designated MDT or Board Members in respect of clinical, managerial, and administrative areas, as necessary.

Maintain own personal and professional development as agreed at your annual review.

STANDARD PARAGRAPHS

To be read in line with relevant Organisation Policy and Employee Handbook

It is the responsibility of each member of staff to maintain confidentiality, in line with the organisations Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

Staff must be aware of and maintain up to date knowledge and skill to adhere to the provisions of Health and Safety legislation, to ensure their safety and the safety of others.

Under the Health Act Code of Practice for the Prevention of HCAI 2006, staff have a personal responsibility to ensure that their work adheres to this Code to preserve safe patient care.

Staff will be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the organisation, whilst working within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive

Develop and deliver services which puts the patients of Harthill PCN at the heart of what we do.

Other

Essential

• Drive and have access to transport to attend visits or sites across the PCN, this may include home visits
• Applicants must be willing to obtain and maintain Class 1 Business Insurance for any vehicle used in the performance of their duties, at their own expense.
• Immunisation status for Covid -19 (unless exempt in accordance with regulations)

Values

Essential

• Working Together
• Improvement and Development
• Respect and Compassion
• Engagement and Involvement

Behaviours

Essential

• Communicates with colleagues well to ensure the smooth delivery of services
• Proactively supports others to deliver team objectives
• Takes responsibility for actions and looks to enhance the service and its reputation in all activities undertaken
• Actively engages with building personal capacity and resilience

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree level in area of specialism (Nursing, Clinical Pharmacist, Physiotherapy, Dietetics, Podiatry, Occupational Therapy, Paramedicine) and independent prescribing qualification
• Registered clinical practitioner with their relevant professional body and the HCPC

Experience

Essential

• Working at a level where you encompass the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies
• Has a detailed knowledge and understanding in practice of applying Caldicott Principles, Data Protection Act 2018 and appropriately protects an individuals personal data, disclosing where appropriate only
• To deliver outcomes based on set targets
• Liaise with other colleagues to promote the success of YHP and its Partner organisations in primary care
• Communicate effectively in a calm and timely manner, respecting the views, autonomy and culture of others
• Demonstrates a professional approach including emotional intelligence and resilience.
• Effectively manages more challenging communication including sharing difficult to hear information and making this understandable
• Highly skilled at influencing in an evidence base way, not telling, engaging
• Addresses issues swiftly nipping issues in the bud to prevent escalation (including the performance management of colleagues)
• Awareness of and has well-developed IT skills to facilitate quick and confident learning of new systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting (including Microsoft packages)
• Work to perpetuate a culture that is transparent and open
• A good listener who demonstrates empathy
• Working well with others to deliver goals
• Being motivated to deliver excellent services to support Primary Care in our region
• Evidence of previous service improvement involvement, with a positive mindset towards development, engaging others effectively to achieve this at individual and organisational levels
• Demonstratable success in the performance management, coaching and supervision of colleagues
• Demonstrates commitment to CPD

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).