Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES

Assess, diagnose, and treat patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.

Consider the holistic biopsychosocial needs of patients, and plan clinical care accordingly.

Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based national and local protocols, and within scope of practice.

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC or HCPC.

Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.

Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines, and evidence-based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking, and formal evaluation.

Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support and participate in shared learning across the Primary Care Network

Use a structured framework (e.g., root-cause analysis) to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents, and near-miss events.

Act as a clinical leader in the delivery of services ensuring that the needs of the patient are a priority.

Take responsibility for own learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model.

Support staff development in order to maximise potential.

Contribute to the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards.

Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.

Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences)

Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

Experience

Essential

• - Experience of practice within the four pillars
• - Job plan that demonstrates advanced nursing practice and has equity with peers working at this level.
• - Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews

Desirable

• - Experience of working in a primary care/PCN setting.
• - A good knowledge of key policies from the Department of Health, NHSE & the ICB

Other Requirements

Essential

• - A willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
• - Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check.
• - Meet the requirements and produce evidence for nurse revalidation.
• - Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ANP
• - Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own home.

Desirable

• - Clear polite telephone manner
• - Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.

Qualifications

Essential

• - Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• - Masters degree required for qualification post December 2020 refer to RCN Credentialing for Advanced Level of Nursing Practice/Post graduate diploma or degree for Advanced Practice Qualification up to December 2020
• - Qualified Independent Nurse Prescriber on the NMC register.
• - Meets the standards for registered ANP working at advanced level.
• - Minor illness qualification

Desirable

• - Qualified triage nurse
• - Teaching qualification
• - ALS and PALS

Personal Skills

Essential

• - A history of communicating and engaging with a wide range of staff, building excellent and trusted relationships.
• - Excellent communication skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within an organisation.
• - Experience of championing diversity and inclusion and promoting actions to make improvements to the experience of diverse groups.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• - Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centered support in a non-judgmental way.
• - Courteous, respectful and helpful at all times.
• - Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity.
• - Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential.
• - Ability to use discretion and sensitivity
• - Ability to work on own initiative.
• - Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face.
• - Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• - High levels of integrity and loyalty
• - Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact.
• - Ability to take part in reflective practice.
• - Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional.
• - Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
• - Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure.
• - Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines.
• - High level of written and oral communication skills.
• - Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.

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).