Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The Hythe Medical Centre; Staines-upon-Thames; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Hythe Medical Centre is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our GP team across two sites in Staines and Egham. The ACP will work autonomously within the multidisciplinary practice, delivering safe, patient-centred care for acute and chronic conditions, and referring as needed.

The post requires advanced clinical decision-making, leadership within the team, and the ability to manage a broad scope of practice in primary care.

Qualifications

• Advanced clinical practice experience is required.
• Current UK professional registration is mandatory.
• Ability to work autonomously within a multidisciplinary GP team.
• Commitment to high-quality, patient-centred care.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment for undifferentiated conditions at an advanced level.
• Utilise sensitive communication to ensure patient consent and understanding.
• Deliver care within professional guidelines and practice policies.
• Provide clinical leadership as required within the practice team.
• Refer to secondary care or other professionals when appropriate.
• Contribute to disease management targets and quality standards.

Skills

Autonomous clinician

Advanced clinical practice

Clinical decision making

Patient-centred care

Education

Advanced Clinical Practice experience

Job description

Job summary

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) will work as an autonomous clinician within the multidisciplinary general practice team, providing high-quality, patient-centred care to patients presenting with both acute and long-term health conditions. Working within their agreed scope of practice, the post holder will assess, diagnose, investigate, treat and appropriately refer patients, using advanced clinical decision-making skills to deliver safe and effective care.

The post holder will demonstrate courageous and critical thinking and is a caring, compassionate and committed experienced nurse or relevant clinician who, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice.

The post holder will commit to demonstrating critical thinking in the safe clinical decision-making process. They will communicate and work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing clinical leadership as required.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Practice: Assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.

Communications: Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.

Delivering a Quality Service: Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the appropriate governing body.

About us

We are a friendly GP surgery working over two sites in Staines and Egham and are looking for a reliable and motivated individual to join our clinical team, alongside our current GPs and ANPs.

Job responsibilities

• Undertakes Clinical Practice at an advanced level using expert knowledge and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary health care services
• Assesses diagnoses and treats patients attending primary health care services with a range of acute, non-acute and chronic medical conditions.
• Refers patients to other medical specialities for assessment if deemed appropriate.
• Refers patients as appropriate to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations
• Undertakes and interprets a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures e.g. cytology, venepuncture, blood pressure monitoring etc.
• Makes decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. direct referral of patients to Hospital Consultants without prior reference to other medical colleagues.
• Advises and supports others where standard protocols do not apply.
• Communicates highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives and carers.
• Initiates the process of diagnosis with patients suspected to have a chronic disease e.g. Diabetes, COPD, asthma, IHD referring to other clinical staff as appropriate.
• Contribute to practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda e.g. QOF, prescribing incentive scheme, NSFs, National benchmarking.
• Audits outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary.
• Works within professional guidelines and codes of conduct.
• Works within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management.
• Extended and supplementary prescriber

Qualifications

• Advanced Clinical Practice experience

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).