The post holder will be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the Urgent Treatment Centre 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 in the Urgent Treatment Centre.
The post holder will 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.
The post holder is an experienced clinician who, acting within their professional boundaries, will work flexibly to provide care for the presenting-patient, from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment to evaluation of care.
* Assist patients / service users / carers / relatives during incidental contacts.
* Work autonomously as an advanced practitioner within the specialty, managing a caseload of patients delivering individualised direct patient care.
* Direct responsibility for assessment, examination, investigation and diagnosis of patients within their area of work.
* Appropriately treat patients, resulting in the safe management and appropriate referral or discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations.
* Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment / advice as per specialty and scope of practice, using agreed protocols of clinical practice and professional guidelines.
* Within scope of practice and clinical competence, request and / or undertake diagnostic procedures and clinical investigations related to plans of care.
* Utilise scope of practice to undertake Non-Medical Prescribing role and advise on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group. Work within Trust policy for Medicines Management.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary.
In addition to this, it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
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