Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Crewe; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Crewe is seeking a skilled healthcare professional to deliver comprehensive general practice care, focusing on chronic disease management, acute and long-term conditions, and patient education.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, maintain accurate records, support safeguarding, and contribute to QOF targets, delivering high-quality care in line with NICE guidelines and local policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Ensure read codes are used effectively
• Maintain chronic disease registers
• Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately
• Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
• Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
• Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance

Job description

• a. The delivery of highly effective medical care to the entitled population
• b. Manage patients presenting with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions, providing subject matter expert advice to patients.
• c. Implement and evaluate individual specialised treatment plans for chronic disease patients
• d. Identify, manage and support patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients health.
• e. Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
• f. Request pathology services as necessary
• g. Process and interpret pathology and other test results as required
• h. Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary / specialist care as required
• i. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• j. Ensure read codes are used effectively
• k. Maintain chronic disease registers
• l. Prioritise health issues and intervene appropriately.
• m. Support the team in dealing with clinical emergencies
• n. Recognise, assess and refer patients presenting with mental health needs.
• o. Extended and supplementary prescriber, adhering to extant guidance
• p. Support patients in the use of their prescribed medicines or over the counter medicines (within own scope of practice), reviewing annually as required
• q. Contribute to practice targets (QOF etc.), complying with local and regional guidance
• r. Accept delegated responsibility for a specific area (or areas) of the QOF
• s. Attend and contribute effectively to practice meetings as required
• t. Liaise with external services / agencies to ensure the patient is supported appropriately (vulnerable patients etc.)
• u. Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies
• v. Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately
• w. Prepare and complete the revalidation process
• x. Commit to self-learning and instil an ethos of continuing professional development across the practice team Deliver opportunistic health promotion where appropriate