Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Primary Care)
Barnet PCN5 are looking to recruit a full-time or part-time Advanced Clinical Practitioner to its well established team. The PCN clinical team consists of:
* Clinical Pharmacists (8 in total)
* GP
* GP Clinical Director
* Advanced Clinical Practitioner
* Practice Nurse
* HCA
The ideal candidate will be an Independent Prescriber, with experience within a Primary Care or Community setting.
Main duties of the job
* Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her own professional actions.
* Undertake clinical decisions at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care service.
* Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-urgent and chronic medical decisions.
* Obtain a clinical history, undertake appropriate physical examinations and investigations, formulate differential diagnosis and carry through management treatment plans ensuring relevant follow up.
* Undertake pre booked emergency clinics, face to face consultations, telephone or video consultation.
* Work as part of a larger primary care network to improve patient care and ensure more efficient ways of working.
* Promote a learning environment for patients, nurses and other health professionals.
About us
Barnet PCN5 is a Primary Care Network that consists of:
* Greenfields Surgery
* St Georges Surgery
* Pennine Surgery
* Dr Azim & Partners
* Phoenix Surgery
We serve a population of approximately 50,000 patients.
Job responsibilities
* Maintain professional registration and work within the most up to date relevant professional standards set by individual profession governing body.
* Record accurate consultation data in patients records in the clinical systems (e.g., EMIS, System One) in accordance with the up-to-date professional standards.
* Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring consistent and accurate data entry and use of read codes.
* Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports to discuss with clinician as appropriate.
* As an independent prescriber, prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as defined by current legislative framework within scope of practice.
* Provide safe, evidence-based, cost-effective, individualised patient care.
* Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support with an emphasis on prevention and self-care and support patients with socio-economic issues.
* Promote health and well-being through health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills to improve self-care and promote independence for patients.
* Participate in screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of disease.
* Refer patients directly to other services/agencies as appropriate or after discussion with a GP.
* Undertake home visits (including care homes), telephone/video consultations, telephone triage and support future developments in order to improve service delivery and patient experience, encouraging patients to rely on face-to-face consultations only where there is clinical need to do so.
* Triaging patients for GP emergency surgery and support the on-call GP as appropriate.
* Work with allied health professionals to ensure Quality and Outcome Frameworks are delivered.
* Handle complex decision making which involves sensitive or contentious information and occasionally deal with situations which are hostile or emotive.
* Exercise professional judgment to manage risk appropriately especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and support teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families and carers.
* Use enhanced communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills and demonstrate empathy, reassurance and adopt persuasive skills to overcome barriers to acceptance.
* Work with multi-disciplinary team within the Practice, and across the wider primary care network to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
* Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* To be able to independently prescribe.
Experience
* Experience of working within either Primary Care or the Community.
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.
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