Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Coastal Partnership; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare partnership in Great Yarmouth is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide exceptional clinical care across multiple coastal surgeries. Candidates should have significant experience, ideally in elderly care, and be equipped to handle various patient demographics. This role emphasizes autonomy in decision-making and includes responsibilities like triaging, home visits, and chronic disease management.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience at a senior level in specialty area.
• Evidence of ongoing CPD.
• Experience of working with the elderly.

Responsibilities

• Assess and triage patients including same day triage.
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of broadened level of responsibility.
• Visit Care Homes and undertake weekly ward rounds.

Skills

Good verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Sound clinical reasoning and decision making

Adaptability and resilience

Education

Masters degree in relevant area

Registered on appropriate professional register

Qualified independent prescriber

Tools

Knowledge of SystmOne

Job description

The Coastal Partnership is looking for a passionate, motivated, and experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to deliver exceptional clinical care to our patients across our four coastal sites: Martham, Hemsby, Ormesby, and Caister Surgeries.

Please note successful applicants will be invited to interview on the AFTERNOON of WEDNESDAY 17TH DECEMBER.

Main duties of the job

The Successful candidate is required to practice independently, assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.

They should demonstrate safe clinical decision making, management, plan, prescribing and work with collaboratively with the practice team to meet the needs of the patients. they should have good experience assessment and management skills and will be supported by GPs and other clinicians.

You should be passionate about providing care for the elderly, as well as the usual wide range of patient demographics. Our population includes a number of care homes, for which you will be a key clinician within the team.

• Run minor illness clinics, for a range of acute and chronic conditions
• Conduct home visits/ Care home visits
• Provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment
• Accuratley triage and piroritise patients

GP experience or secondary care experience is preferred.

About us

At The Coastal Partnership, we are dedicated to helping you reach your full potential, fostering confidence in your patient care and pride in your outcomes. Our goal is to be the preferred choice for both patients and staff. Whilst we are rated good by CQC, we are continually evolving and transforming to improve our services to meet the increasingly complex demand of our patients today.

We are in search of an individual who can share our vision for high-quality primary care, regardless of where you are in your career journey. Our Partnership, led by four partners and a robust management team, spans seven locations across three PCNs, catering to a diverse range of village, town and city demographics. Although this role is based within our Coastal Villages Practice sites, there may be a future opportunity to work across different locations should additional experience be sought. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare delivery.

Job responsibilities

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment -including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways- or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and the limits of own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information.
• The ACP provides an opportunity for patients to receive timely care and negate unnecessarily delay in receiving treatment and without the need to refer to a GP.
• Manage undifferentiated undiagnosed conditions and identify red flags and underlying serious pathology and take appropriate action.
• Visit Care Homes and undertake weekly ward rounds, working closely with the Care Home and Practice colleagues to optimise the health and welfare of patients.
• ACPs in primary care can develop close, long-term relationships with their patients and work in partnership with them to achieve optimum health. They are autonomous in making decisions based on assessment, diagnosis and interpretation of test results.
• Use complex decision making to inform the diagnosis, investigation, complete management of episodes of care within a broad scope of practice.
• Exercise professional judgement to manage risk.
• Actively take a personalised care approach and population centred care approach to enable shared decision making.
• Complete the relevant training 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.
• ACPs can independently prescribe appropriate medication, evaluate or refer to other specialists if necessary.
• Be a professional role model for the organisations.
• Actively seek feedback and involvement from individuals, families, carers, communities and colleagues in the co-production of service improvements.
• Critically assess and address own learning needs, negotiating a personal development plan that reflects the breadth of ongoing professional development across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research).
• Provide chronic disease clinics, delivering patient care as necessary, referring patients to secondary/specialist care as required.
• Chaperone patients where necessary.
• Support the team with all safeguarding matters in accordance with local and national policies.

Person Specification

Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work on own initiative.
• Flexible.
• Sound clinical reasoning and decision making.

Other Requirements

• Commitment to high quality patient care and efficiency in all aspects of the Practices operations.
• Evidenced commitment to equality and diversity.
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
• The post holder will be required to travel between practices in the locality.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit care homes and people in their own homes

Personal style and behaviour

• Ability to work under pressure.
• Able to work for the benefit of the team.
• Adaptability and resilience.
• Flexibility to be able to cover sickness and holiday.
• Ability to inspire and lead a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree in the relevant area of expertise.
• Registered on your appropriate professional register such as NMC, MCPara, etc.
• Qualified independent prescriber.
• Minimum of 5 years post registration experience at a senior level in specialty area.
• Evidence of on-going CPD.

Experience

• Experience of working with the elderly.
• Is working at a 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.
• Advanced Clinical Assessment skills.
• Evidence of research and audit.
• Knowledge of SystmOne

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.