ACP with a Paramedic background (North Care Network) (37.5 hours)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

As an advanced practitioner this post holder will work 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.

Job Summary

Whilst operating at an advanced practitioner level in your area of expertise you will 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 work alongside the multi-disciplinary team across the PCN (all 3 sites) to assess and triage patients, including same day triage, including some later nights up to 8pm.

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 and secondary care.

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. 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 Job Description: Advanced Care Practitioner with paramedic background.

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/Board Members in respect of clinical, managerial, and administrative areas, as necessary.

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

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 All employees with managerial responsibilities:

Have a statutory duty to ensure that their staff undertake all relevant safety training in accordance with the Organisation Mandatory Training Policy including fire safety.

Responsible for the identification and management of clinical/organisational risks within their area of responsibility through their involvement with a comprehensive risk assessment, action planning and monitoring process.

Responsible for appropriate key performance indicators

To embrace and embed our values

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 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

Knowledge and Skills

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
• Registered clinical practitioner with their relevant professional body and the HCPC
• 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
• Work to perpetuate a culture that is transparent and open
• A good listener who demonstrates empathy
• 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)

Behaviours and Values

Essential

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

Other

Essential

• Drive and have access to transport to attend visits or sites across the PCN, this may include home visits

Qualifications

Essential

• Postgraduate qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice which must include prescribing, in professionals from a paramedic background or have completed masters level or equivalent capability in paramedic areas of practice and will have been signed off formally within the clinical pillar competencies of the paramedic FCP/AP roadmap to practice.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Yorkshire Health Partners Ltd

Address

Central Surgery

King Street

Barton-upon-humber

DN185ER

Employer's website

https://yorkshirehealthpartners.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)