An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right individual to join a growing team of multi-disciplinary clinicians delivering care to patients within Meon Health Practice. We are currently looking to expand our Complex Care Team who deliver care to both individuals in their own home and patients in residential and nursing homes.
This vacancy is working 2 days a week.
Main duties of the job
Remote consulting and visiting Meon Health Practice patients in CQC registered Care homes (nursing/ residential) and housebound patients registered with the network practices to achieve acute visiting and assessment early in the day (typically before mid-day) to optimise patient outcomes.
The role will comprise two specific disciplines:
1. Working within the Meon Health Practice complex care Team you will undertake proactive consultations with Nursing / Residential home and housebound patients within the Meon Health Practice. You will provide advice to care home staff on patient care and wider health policy. This includes patient specific care plans and DNACPR decisions.
2. Working alongside a centrally based duty GP you will deliver a high standard of patient care to patients who have been placed onto a central GP triaged visiting list by practices within Meon Health Practice.
About us
Meon Health Practice has 3 sites, The Highlands Practice, Jubilee Surgery and Whiteley Surgery. Our staff can work across any of the 3 establishments.
Meon Health prides itself in the development of staff. We also offer the following benefits:
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Membership to the company shop
* Blue Light Card (at a small cost)
* Cycle to work scheme
* Eye Care Vouchers
* TELUS (Fitness and Well being App)
* NHS discounts online
Job responsibilities
As an Advanced Practitioner within the Meon Health Practice Complex care team, you will be using advanced autonomous clinical skills and a broad, in-depth theoretical knowledge base, to provide patient care. This will include referring patients to hospital or other community services. You will be working autonomously (in the patients home or a care home) with access to electronic patient records and available escalation to the complex care GP or duty GP for advice and support as required. You will work alongside Clinical Pharmacists from within Meon Health Practice and the ICB to deliver the appropriate medicines related care.
Alongside the Meon Health Practice complex care Team, provide a first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems & social health needs. Using skills in history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making, you will establish a diagnosis and management plan.
Provide assessment, treatment and diagnosis at point of first contact, by attending to patients in a variety of clinical or non-clinical settings according to patients needs.
Undertake home, nursing and residential care home visits, in accordance with the relevant protocols.
Make professionally autonomous decisions for which you will be accountable.
Refer patients to an alternative care setting or treat & discharge as appropriate.
Instigate necessary invasive/non-invasive diagnostic tests/investigations and interpret findings/reports.
Ensure that professional standards are maintained and within the guidance issued by the DoH (Department of Health), the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) and the NMC.
Work with multi-disciplinary teams within the SHN and healthcare community to promote integrated and seamless pathways of care.
Contribute to Meon Health Practice achieving its quality and quantitative targets to sustain the high standards of patient care and service delivery.
Participate in the assessment of community health needs and help to develop patient and family-centred strategies to address them.
Help to develop and set up new patient services and participate in initiatives to improve existing patient services.
Assist with development of patient care plans and ensure appropriate DNACPR decisions are in place.
Use Associated Clinical Groups informatics to identify patients needing additional care or at risk of hospital admission.
Assess frailty using Rockwood frailty scales/FI.
The post-holder will:
1. Promote evidence-based practice via latest research-based guidelines and the development of practice-based research.
2. Monitor the effectiveness of their own clinical practice through quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
3. Maintain any professional registration.
4. Participate in continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities to ensure that up to date evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role is maintained including maintaining up to date CPR training and other core competencies.
5. Record accurate, timely consultation data within the patients records.
6. Work collaboratively with colleagues within and external to the Practice.
7. Pro-actively promote the complex care role within the Meon Health Practice and externally to key stakeholders and agencies.
8. Identify own learning needs in order to remain up to date and improve service delivery.
Person Specification
Experience
* The right candidate will have a strong desire to achieve the best possible outcomes for patients in the community setting and have the motivation and flexibility to help develop the services as the team evolves to meet the needs of the population.
* The post holder will be a registered Nurse with post-graduate qualifications relevant to the position e.g. Physical Assessment & History Taking & prescribing.
* Primary care experience is not essential; however, a good understanding of how Primary Care works would be beneficial.
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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