Mid Furness Home Visiting Practitioner

Job responsibilities

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

To support the acute home visiting of patients from the practices that make up Mid Furness PCN

Undertake advanced assessment of house bound patients, resulting in an end to end episode of care through treatment planning and prescribing (as required and appropriate within the scope of clinical competence and practice)

Arrange clinical investigations, either directly or via the patients home practice

Arrange onward referral to secondary care, community services and other PCN services either directly or via the patients home practice

Gain insight and feedback directly with practices to ensure excellence in integrated service delivery

Develop and make use of full scope of practice, including skills relating to independent prescribing.

Critically evaluate current research and demonstrate an understanding of the application of national and local guidelines and legislation relating to health and social care and their impact on service provision.

Be responsible for and lead others in maintaining stock of equipment and materials, advising the correct procedures relating to the safe and competent use, issue and retrieval.

Develop relationships and collaborative working approach across the PCN supporting the integration of pathways in primary care.

Be accountable for decisions and actions supported by a professional culture of peer networking/review and engagement in evidence-based practice.

Actively participate in the mentoring of colleagues and participate in the on-going development of the role of paramedics and the function of home visiting

Implement all aspects of effective clinical governance for own practice, including regular audit and evaluation, supervision and training.

Actively pursue development opportunities for practice and service delivery, policy implementation and lead specific projects within specific area of practice

Maintain a professional portfolio for CPD recording learning outcomes through participation in internal and external development opportunities and to demonstrate acquired highly specialist skills and knowledge of professional practice.

Duties will vary from time to time under the direction of the management leads, in agreement with the post holder, dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.

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Personal Qualities

Essential

• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Ability to work under pressure

Skills

Essential

• Ability to engage with people and motivate and support them
• Calm under pressure, able to use initiative and make decisions
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills with a variety of media and at all levels. This includes the ability to communicate in difficult and challenging environments
• High level of clinical reasoning skills
• Able to problem solve
• Good time management skills, able to prioritise and organise workload for best effect
• Ability to work as part of the organisational team or autonomously as required
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and discretion at all times
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Ability to follow policy and procedure
• Ability to lone work safely

Desirable

• Ability to contribute to and manage change

Qualifications

Essential

• Regulated Health Care professional with current registration
• Relevant Degree level qualification
• Willing and able to undertake Advanced Practitioner course if required (with appropriate qualifications in place to allow this)

Desirable

• Relevant Masters level qualification
• Registered as a non-medical prescriber with the relevant regulator

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience where autonomous working at an advanced level has been acquired
• Demonstrate working towards or willing to develop on commencement of post to academic Level 7 capability in paramedic areas of practice
• Proven autonomous working with the ability to develop treatment plans independently
• Experience of working within multi professional settings with consolidated clinical practice and contributing to effective team working
• Experience of computer based clinical systems, (ideally EMIS Web)

Desirable

• Experience of clinical leadership
• Proven track record of teaching and assessing
• Experience of primary care specific advanced clinical skills
• Experience of leading evidenced service improvement and innovation through service /practice development initiatives, audit or research
• Team management

Other

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours if required
• Understand the legal, ethical and professional responsibilities and accountability with regards to advanced level, autonomous practice.
• Able to meet any travelling requirements of the post
• Clear vision of role and commitment to working in Primary Care
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check

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).