PCN Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job responsibilities

• Integrate and work within our member practices to enhance and support day to day access and capacity.
• Provide additional capacity support for the PCN care home team.
• Assess and triage patients of all ages (including children), 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.
• Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.

• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.

• Actively take a personalised care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
• Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional, clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within Primary Care, for example, first contact practitioners and personalised care roles.
• Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement work across the PCN.
• Optional for the right candidate

1. Provide programme leadership for our Cancer and/or Cardiovascular Disease Programme
2. Provide leadership for practice nursing teams (i.e. the importance of SMI health checks, elderly health checks, LD health checks)
3. Provide support with the PCNs research programme

• Be responsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads.

• Follow organisational policies, protocols, procedures, and standards.

• Report any incidents, accidents or complaints in a timely manner, taking appropriate action where necessary

• Develop themself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.

• Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.

• Maintain accurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work.

• Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN.

• Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events.

• Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.

• Attend a formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.

• Perform other general tasks as assigned.

• The list is an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. The postholder will be expected to carry out other tasks, which may be reasonably required by the employer. The post may be subject to change/review as the needs of the role change.

Experience

Essential

• Have at least 1 years advanced clinical practice experience, of which at least 6 months in a primary care or urgent treatment centre (or similar) setting, including managing a full range of undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions in patients of all ages (including children), to evidence autonomous clinical practice.
• Be working at masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge which is underpinned by theory and experience.
• Experience of dealing with vulnerable patients.
• Has a personalised care and What Matters to Me approach embedded within working practices.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage varied workloads with changing demands.
• Experience seeing patients of all ages, including children.

Desirable

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team within a primary care environment.
• Knowledge of local primary care services.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to support and manage patients including assessment, planning, evaluation and monitoring, including signposting and provision of health promotion and education to patients and carers
• Ability to work autonomously and within professional boundaries, including when ordering and interpreting investigations and developing interventions
• Ability to demonstrate effective written, communication, counselling and interpersonal skills
• Ability to exercise a high level of personal and professional autonomy, including making critical judgements to meet the expectations and demands of the role
• Ability and awareness to seek support from peers when faced with patients with presenting conditions outside of clinical knowledge
• Ability to work within a team, and with multiple teams in different settings
• Participation in clinical audit/quality improvement work

Desirable

• Skills and experience in leadership
• Participation in research
• Effective time management (Planning & Organising)
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of SystmOne

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Team player with a can do attitude
• Good communicator
• Willing to embrace change that will enhance the quality of the service and contribute to developing patient quality audits and pathways
• Flexible and cooperative
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• Problem solving & analytical skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety

Other Requirements

Essential

• Flexibility to work outside of core General Practice hours
• Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis

Qualifications

Essential

• Hold a current professional body registration
• Registered non-medical prescriber
• One of the following must apply to Masters level study:
• -Graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centres ePortfolio (Supported) Route; both pathways enable eligibility for an 'Advanced' digital badge issued by the Centre for Advancing Practice, demonstrating recognised educational and experiential preparation in advanced practice
• -Currently enrolled as a trainee on a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme
• -Currently enrolled on and progressed past the initial Learning Needs Analysis (LNA) stage of the Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio (supported) Route
• Evidence of continued professional development

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).