Advanced Clinical Practitioner

NHS; South Ockendon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in South Ockendon is seeking an advanced clinical practitioner to join their multi-disciplinary team. The role requires a candidate with advanced clinical assessment skills and the ability to work autonomously, supporting innovative healthcare delivery. Ideal applicants will have a post-graduate qualification and professional registration. The practitioner will lead in developing clinical practice standards and provide patient-centered care. This position offers a supportive work environment with a focus on professional development.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing CPD is required.
• Experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in the specialty area is needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient-centered clinical care and advanced clinical assessment.
• Support new patient-focused service improvements.
• Lead clinical practice and care standards development.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment skills

Ability to perform in stressful situations

Sound clinical reasoning & decision making

Flexibility

Ability to inspire and lead a team

Education

Post-graduate qualification in specific specialty

Professional registration with relevant professional body

Job description

Are you an experienced healthcare worker, looking to expand your contribution to healthcare and personal job satisfaction? If so, this could be the opportunity for you.

Peartree and West Horndon Surgeries are looking to recruit an advanced clinical practitioner to join our multi-disciplinary team, to help us to transform and modernise pathways of care, enabling the safe and effective sharing of skills across traditional professional boundaries.

The successful candidate may come from a range of professional backgrounds. As an experienced healthcare professional, educated to masters level, they will have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

The successful candidate will demonstrate flexibility in attitude and behaviour. They will be keen to undertake new ways of working and delivering healthcare, committing to under-taking the professional development required to adapt to changing circumstances.

Main duties of the job

• demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist service providing advice, education and support to staff, patients, their families and carers.
• be practising autonomously as an advanced clinical practitioner within the designated speciality area to provide patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of advanced clinical assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice throughout the directorate.
• support new ways of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service, and will ensure the safe treatment, referral and discharge of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed presentations in their area.
• have responsibility for leading the on-going development of clinical practice and standards of care within the service, including the development of policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues.

About us

Peartree and West Horndon Surgeries are a patient focused and excelling health care provider for patients in South Ockendon and West Horndon localities. We currently consist of 7,600 patients with our West Horndon site as a dispensing practice. We are constantly looking to improve our practices and take on new staff to help further our goal of great healthcare. We try to work in a family type environment and look after our staff and colleagues. Our surgery has 3 partners and one nurse. Our dispensing team consists of 4 pharmacy dispensers.

Job responsibilities

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please do nothesitate to get in contact with us.

Person Specification

Experience

• Evidence of on-going CPD
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Ability to perform in stressful and complex situations
• Sound clinical reasoning & decision making
• Flexibility
• Ability to inspire and lead a team

Qualifications

• Professional registration with relevant professional body: NMC, HCPC or GPhC
• Post-graduate qualification in specific speciality, or equivalent experience
• Post-registration experience at a senior level (Band 7 or above) in specialty area

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.