We have an exciting opportunity for an Enhanced Clinical Practitioner to join our team, where you can make a positive contribution to patient care and peer support and supervision.
As an Enhanced Practitioner you will be acting within your professional boundaries, providing care for patients from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of their care with the support of the PCN Clinical Lead as required. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the Primary Care Network (PCN), whilst working autonomously and taking full accountability for patient encounters.
The Enhanced Clinical Practitioner will undertake duties within the Practice itself thus ensuring contemporary clinical skills and credibility as well as ongoing integration with the wider team and services. This would include review and care of patients attending the Practice (for pre-planned services or same day urgent care) and include diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, seeing, and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs.
Your work will demonstrate improvement in patient outcomes, contributing to reduce health inequalities across the PCN and improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best-in-class service.
Main duties of the job
* An ability to make professional autonomous decisions for which you are accountable.
* Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE national and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
* Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, and complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
* Confirmation that you hold an independent prescribing qualification.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.
About the Practice/Department/Team
Rockingham Forest PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary Care Network comprising 3 practices across north Northamptonshire. We recognise the value that this role can bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.
Rockingham Forest PCN consists of 3 practices Lakeside Corby, Lakeside Headlands, and Lakeside Oundle. For more information on primary care networks please visit here.
Job responsibilities
Supporting the overarching Lakeside Healthcare Group strategy and service delivery, the Enhanced Clinical Practitioner provides complete episodes of care for patients with a wide variety and range of presenting problems and health care needs. This encompasses the provision of evidence-based, high-quality care for patients whose issues fall within urgent acute episodes, long-term chronic conditions and including health promotion and public health elements.
Mentorship and supervision will be provided by the PCN Clinical Lead. The level and type of supervision will be dependent on the post holder's skills and knowledge and determined by the organisations clinical governance arrangements.
Although the expertise of the ECP in Primary Care lies in their ability to operate as a generalist, notably maternity care is the one domain where legislation stipulates that only a registered medical practitioner or a practicing midwife can provide care for a pregnant woman.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RGN or Paramedic Qualification
* Current registration with the NMC or HCPC
* Masters degree - Advanced practice pathway
* Evidence of Continued professional development portfolio
* Working at or towards Masters level or equivalent that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies
* Mentorship and or leadership training
* Undertaken Accredited training in Chronic Disease management
Experience
* Can work autonomously in an independent and advanced Healthcare role
* Experience of providing emergency care for patients and management of patients with complex needs
* Experience in primary care/general practice
* Evidence of wide knowledge base and competency in clinical practice including prescribing
* Experience of case management
* Experience in audit programmes and research studies
* Evidence of service development initiatives within role portfolio
* Working with community development initiatives
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.
£48,864 to £59,931 a year Actual FTE Salary Range
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