Job Overview
Modality Partnership Walsall Division has a full-time vacancy for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. The postholder will be a high performing qualified ACP, working at one of the sites across Modality Walsall Division delivering person centred, safe and effective patient care. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.
This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.
As an employee with us you can benefit from:
* Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
* Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata
* Employee discounts and benefits scheme
* Employee assistance programme (EAP)
* Education and career pathways
* Enhanced Family friendly policies
* Flexible working
* Wellbeing support and initiative
Main duties of the job
The role is an all-rounded, clinical ACP role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as ability to work on own initiative, ability to develop an evidence-based, personalised, integrated health and social care plan in partnership with the individual, carers, relatives and health care professionals, based on a full assessment of medical, nursing and social care needs, and demonstrate ability to act as an autonomous advanced practitioner providing a comprehensive clinical assessment service to patients/carers/families resulting in safe, appropriate clinical decisions.
The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility and commitment and the postholder will be required to work on quality improvement as outlined in the job specification and work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.
Job Description
Advanced Practitioner has the following key responsibilities:
* To 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.
* Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed condition and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
* Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
* Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making with the presenting person.
* Complete the relevant training in order to provide multi-professional clinical practice and CPD supervision to other roles within primary care, for example first contact practitioners and the personalised care roles.
* 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.
* Receive referrals via a variety of sources, including direct patient referral. Manage own caseload and clinical priorities according to agreed protocols and working practices.
* Participate in multidisciplinary clinics, participate in ward rounds, patient reviews and multidisciplinary team meetings.
* Undertake a variety of clinical skills and provide treatment/ advice as per speciality and scope of practice.
* 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 provide advice on medicine management issues associated with the patient specialty group.
* Provide a seamless, high quality service from referral through to assessment, diagnosis, treatment and review, referring to other specialists as required.
* Use highly developed communication skills to effectively communicate with colleagues, patients and their relatives/carers.
* Work towards safe and timely discharge and/or transfer of care of patients from or between hospitals and services.
* Report and raise concerns related to Safeguarding, accessing advice and support as required.
* Ensure effective and accurate verbal or written handover of patients between healthcare professionals.
* Monitor the quality and standard of care provided by all members of the team and all staff in clinical areas.
* Practice within the scope of professional registration (i.e. NMC, HCPC).
* Provide telephone triage.
* Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
* Accountable for own practice, acting at all times within the Professional Code of Professional Conduct (NMC, HCPC, CSP).
Person Specification: What are the minimum requirements all candidates need to meet?
Qualifications and Experience:
* Registered first level general nurse.
* Recognised degree qualification in autonomous practice.
* MSc or equivalent.
* Minimum of 5 years post registration experience.
* Minimum of 5 years recent primary and community nursing experience.
* Mentor/teaching qualification.
* Clinical supervision training and experience.
* Extended/supplementary prescriber.
Skills:
* Ability to work on own initiative.
* Excellent inter-agency and team working skills.
* Ability to demonstrate integrity, effective leadership and management skills.
* Credible and effective communicator with the ability to operate efficiently under pressure and motivate staff.
* Ability to challenge at senior manager/director level and develop and promote innovative solutions.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Cycle to work scheme
* Health & wellbeing programme
Licence/Certification:
* NMC (required)
Work Location: In person
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