Job summary
Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network is made up of several GP practices in the Rotherham area. We are recruiting a number of Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work in our friendly GP Practices.
We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work across Magna Group Practice which has 4 sites. You may be asked to work across more than one site.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will utilise a range of advanced skills and expert knowledge for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process. Clinical care will include new patient clerking, initial history taking, face-to-face assessment, examination, diagnosis, treatment, management, referral, and evaluation of care. You must possess a Digital Badge as this role is funded via the ARRS scheme.
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.
* Working 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
Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network includes 7 member practices. We provide primary care for over 52,000 patients in the Rotherham area.
Our aim by working together to co-ordinate, plan and share resources is that we will develop a stronger, more resilient primary care offer for all our patients.
This new way of working brings together partners from across the health, social care and voluntary sector to design and deliver innovation in services better placed to meet the needs of our communities, ensure better health outcomes for patients and utilise resources in a more efficient way. This includes the creation of additional roles in our practices including Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers and Care Coordinators.
Job responsibilities
* Maintain their professional registration. 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 (eg: 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, the post holder will 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.
* Working with allied health professionals to ensure Quality and Outcome Frameworks are delivered.
* Under 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 supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of the 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 the quality assurance strategies such as the use of audit and peer review.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* a. has a masters degree level in the relevant area of expertise;
* b. is working at a masters level aware 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;
* have either graduated from a Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or completed the Centre's ePortfolio (supported) Route; both pathways enable eligibility for an Advanced digital badge issued by the Centre, demonstrating recognised educational and experiential preparation in advanced practice.
Desirable
* Must be able to prescribe.
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of both team and autonomous working.
* Can show evidence of using autonomous physical examination and assessment skills.
* Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
* Consolidated Independent Prescribing experience.
* Use of examination skills in practice.
* Experience of telephone triage.
Desirable
* Experience of working in Primary Care.
* Experience of working in a GP Practice.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. #J-18808-Ljbffr