Advanced Clinical Practitioner

FCMS LTD; Stanhill; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in urgent care based in Morecambe seeks an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to deliver high-quality care for patients with minor injuries and illnesses. The role requires clinical expertise and judgement, with opportunities for mentorship and development. Candidates must have a nursing qualification, clinical experience, and be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment. This position offers competitive hourly pay and a supportive team culture.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Attendance Bonus

Staff Benefit Scheme

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Qualifications

• 5+ years post-registration experience in an unscheduled care setting.
• Expertise in managing minor injuries of all ages.
• Commitment to ongoing personal development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of care for undiagnosed minor illnesses and injuries.
• Work autonomously and undertake assessments, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Participate in the care of patients and manage clinical audits.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Judgement and discretion

Ability to work under pressure

Leadership qualities

Communication skills

Education

NMC/HCPC Registered Practitioner

First Contact Practitioner/Advanced Practice qualification

Non-medical prescribing qualification (V300)

Telephone triage qualification

Tools

Clinical computer systems (Adastra)

Minor injury/illness training

Job description

Job Summary

Post: Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Pay: £28.48

Experience, qualification, and soft skills, have you got everything required to succeed in this opportunity? Find out below.

• £31.73 per hour depending on experience PLUS a Golden Hello of £2.5k paid in two instalments over 6 months pro‑rata (applies to EXTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY). Hours: 24 hours per week. Accountable to: Associate Director of Clinical Services. Reports to: Lancashire Clinical Manager. Base: The post will be based at Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC).

The centre delivers urgent care services between 8 am 08 pm 7 days a week, 365 days per year across the UTC and GP Out of Hours.

Evening and weekend work will be required as part of this post.

About

Come and join our lively and vibrant team! Nestled in the lovely seaside town of Morecambe, we are an Urgent Care Centre with a highly skilled team who deal with all ages, ranging from babies to the elderly.

We are a high‑performance team with complementary talents and skills, who consistently show high levels of innovation, focusing on the best quality of care for our patients.

We pride ourselves on an open and honest culture, showing dedication towards peer support, maximising individual strengths and personalities, valuing new ideas to help strengthen and celebrate what a great service we offer. Come and be a part of our amazing team!

Main Duties

It will be the responsibility of the post holder to exercise clinical expertise, judgement, discretion and decision‑making in clinical care within agreed parameters.

The post holder will provide a high standard of care for patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed minor illness & injuries.

Morecambe Urgent Treatment Centre works collaboratively with Morecambe GP Out of Hours to provide Morecambe Urgent Care; as such there is an expectation to work across the services when required.

There are opportunities for development, with training and mentorship to extend clinical competencies (illness or injury) for the right candidate.

Job Description – Responsibilities

• Work with and champion the unit in conjunction with Senior Managerial colleagues.
• Support the Management team and Clinical manager to ensure all service KPIs / Targets are met, and look for improvement over and above the set commissioned targets.
• Ensure mandatory training is kept up to date and receive suitable CPD for ongoing development needs.
• Practice autonomously as an independent practitioner, participating in the care of and undertaking assessment, diagnosis, treatment / referral and discharge of patients presenting with minor injury and illness within agreed parameters.
• Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of a client group while working autonomously.
• Identify the need for and initiate and interpret relevant diagnostic investigations and results.
• Safely and competently undertake invasive and non‑invasive procedures to establish a diagnosis.
• Be able to independently undertake telephone triage.
• Work within the parameters of current Non‑medical prescribing legislation / guidelines.
• Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through supervision of practice, clinical audit, evidence‑based practice, teaching and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.
• Contribute to the Clinical Governance agenda within the service by leading audit and research as part of the multi‑disciplinary team within the area of expertise.
• Act in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct or other relevant professional body.
• Provide professional and clinical advice within the multi‑disciplinary team.
• Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with healthcare needs.
• Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals.
• When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required.
• Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and acknowledge limitations.
• Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE.
• Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request and review x-rays, treat minor injuries / implement expanded roles in practice.
• Develop and maintain clinical / nursing policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensure any patient information is up‑to‑date and produced in appropriate formats.
• Role model standards of care and behaviour through clinical practice.
• Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism, through commitment to the integration of policies and procedures.
• Analyse relevant local and national policy within their area of expertise and advise on the impact for service, leading the implementation of changes and evaluation of processes.
• Maintain professional registration and practice through CPD and maintain a professional portfolio to demonstrate competency in line with the NMC competency framework or other professional body.
• Prescribe medication in accordance with competency, professional guidelines and NICE / CKS guidelines.
• Maintain NMP competency and regularly review prescribing practice through CPD and reflective practice.
• Allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess own workload within an accepted time frame.
• Ensure appropriate use of resources to meet service needs.
• Recognise and act as an advocate for patients, carers, service, and the organisation.
• Carry out annual review of best practice / national standards and implement recommended changes.
• Promote workforce integrity (empower professional accountability within the clinical team, ensure accreditation process followed, complaints management, competency assessment, ensuring mandatory training requirements fulfilled, robust clinical induction).
• Maintain a sound knowledge of NHS policy and NICE guidance in relation to scheduled and unscheduled care.
• Identify own development needs in line with service requirements within a personal development plan.
• Develop and distribute educational leaflets in relevant formats for patients relating to services and patient pathways.
• Ensure personal, peer support and clinical supervision needs are met.
• Contribute to clinical governance outcomes and understand and apply professional and national guidelines on confidentiality.
• Be fully involved in the progress and development of clinicians and provide constructive and relevant feedback.
• Assist in the implementation of training and development in your locality.
• Evaluate clinical practise through audit of service and develop and manage strategies to address any shortfalls.
• Undertake audits as required by the service, working with the clinical manager.
• Demonstrate knowledge of current research in all aspects of your work and advise others on the implementation of relevant research findings.
• Initiate and / or become involved in research projects in response to identified needs.
• Disseminate results / research / audit findings via local teams and / or national / international publications.
• Implement research findings appropriate to practice.
• Promote the shared objectives of the multidisciplinary team by working closely to ensure that best practice is achieved utilising both Clinical Benchmarking and Essence of Care processes.
• Communicate effectively with other team members, patients and carers and other healthcare professionals.
• Take all appropriate steps to minimise conflict.
• Comply with safety policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
• Comply with the Organisations Business continuity Plan.
• Refrain from the willful misuse or interference with equipment provided in the interest of Health and Safety.
• Report as soon as practically possible any hazards or defects.
• Report as soon as practically possible accidents or untoward incidents and ensure appropriate incident reporting documentation is completed.
• Be actively involved as a departmental representative.
• Make effective use of training to maintain knowledge and skills.
• Be responsible to ensure all aspects of the Manual Handling guidelines are followed, providing appropriate risk assessments.
• Manage clinical care following required Policies and Procedures pertaining to bodily fluids, infection control and COSHH regulations resulting in frequent exposure to highly unpleasant working conditions.
• Manage challenging situations and people with some exposure to hazards, e.g. violent and abusive patients, child abuse, critically ill patients.
• Manage own time effectively within variable shift patterns.
• Ability to work under pressure in an ever changing, challenging specialist environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of patient care.
• Dealing with difficult situations and people by demonstrating and exercising critical thinking skills when faced with incomplete or lack of information or complexity.
• Seeing, treating, referring, or discharging patients independently without direct supervision.
• Triaging, referring, or discharging patients independently without direct supervision.
• Manage patient and public expectations of the service within set national targets and time constraints.
• Manage effective change and development within clinical areas, maintaining highly specialised knowledge and competences.
• Any other duties considered relevant to the post and commensurate with the post holder’s grade and as agreed by their manager.

Person Specification – Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Practitioner (NMC / HCPC).
• First Contact Practitioner / Advanced Practice qualification or RCN Credentialled practitioner with experience dealing with both children and adults.
• Clinical experience within an unscheduled care setting.
• Non‑medical prescribing qualification (V300).
• Recognised training in minor injury / illness, consultation, and examination skills.
• IRMER / red dot xray interpretation course.
• Practice assessor certificate.
• Telephone triage qualification.
• Minimum 5 years post‑registration experience and a passion for working in an integrated urgent care system and working with partner organisations.
• Experience of expert autonomous practice within an unscheduled care setting managing minor injuries of all ages.
• Health Promotion experience.
• Experience using clinical computer systems including Adastra.
• Understanding of current Urgent Health care issues and initiatives.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, intense conditions and within time constraints.
• Understanding and awareness of CQC compliance and essential standards of quality and safety.
• Teaching experience / clinical supervision experience.
• Experience of working within a community Urgent Care setting or ED or an appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing practice.
• Innovative practice to deliver patient‑centred care.
• Evidence of clinical competence in a wide range of relevant clinical skills, local anaesthesia infiltration, suturing, x‑ray interpretation, fracture management.
• Training and Personal Essential.
• Willing / able to attend appropriate training.
• Commitment to own personal development.
• Positive can‑do attitude.
• Leadership qualities.
• Commitment to personal and professional development.
• Willing to work unsociable hours.
• Ability to deal with difficult and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy.
• Committed to service development.
• Adaptable to the changing needs of the service.

Desirable

• Teaching Qualification Teamwork, Management and Communication.
• Commitment to working with multiple organisations to manage patient flows.
• Commitment to multi‑disciplinary team approach to care.
• Excellent oral, aural and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to deal with difficult situations.
• The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the current issues affecting Primary Care services.
• Time management of work productivity.
• Ability to challenge the norm and get the best out of team members.
• Commitment to support, develop and manage change.
• Evidence of good organisational and leadership skills.
• Information governance understanding and awareness.
• Evidence of leadership experience.
• Proof of project management.

Disability Confident Employer

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. DBS check is required, which will involve producing and verifying three forms of valid ID. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with documentation as evidence). Please note that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time.

We offer:

• NHS Pension Cycle to Work Scheme
• Career Development Opportunities
• Attendance Bonus
• Staff Benefit Scheme
• Free Tea & Coffee
• Eye Care Contributions

Closing Statement

The main duties and responsibility shown above are not exhaustive and should merely be regarded as a guide. The job holder will be expected to conduct any reasonable activities according to the service needs at that time. These are subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the changing needs of the service.

The job holder will be expected to participate in this process and the company would aim to reach agreement to changes.