Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job summary

Thorpe Bay Surgery is looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner/prescribing paramedic/advanced nurse to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries. The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds.

Are you an experienced healthcare worker, looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you. The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.

Main duties of the job

• demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

In the last six months the site has merged partnership with North Shoebury Surgery. We have gone from strength to strength working as a fully digital accessible platform with our patients. The clinical team triage throughout the day, appointments are offered via links for the patients to chose and book the date, time and site of their preference.

The partnership offers face to face along with virtual appointments, patients have the freedom of choice as well as sites of preference.

Clinically we have a wide range of skills ranging from HCA, GPA, practice nurse, associate nurse practitioner, advanced nurse practitioner, prescribing paramedic, GP, pharmacy technician and lead pharmacy technician.

Both sites are nurse and GP training, we have a various students that train and work with the team throughout the year, this is something we are extremely proud to be able to offer.

We are looking to grow our clinical working family, if you feel that your experience and qualifications meet the above skillset, and would like to work with an amazing clinical team, please apply.

Benefits include an NHS Pension