Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Care

Sirona care & health; Clevedon; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a dedicated healthcare professional to join a dynamic Out of Hours team, making a real difference in the community. This role as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner focuses on providing urgent clinical assessments and interventions for adults, ensuring timely and appropriate care to prevent hospital admissions. You will be part of a compassionate team, striving to enhance healthcare outcomes while enjoying the benefits of working with an inclusive organization that values diversity. With competitive NHS benefits and a supportive work environment, this position is perfect for those looking to advance their careers in a meaningful way.

Benefits

12.5% annual leave bonus

Increased pay for weekends and holidays

High street discounts

Generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme

Paid-for training

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Registered with NMC/HCPC, with relevant post-graduate qualifications.
• Experience in emergency care and ability to work autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Provide urgent assessment and treatment for deteriorating service users.
• Prescribe medication and maintain accurate documentation.
• Support the Out of Hours team in delivering urgent care.

Skills

Emergency Care Assessment

Clinical Reasoning

Communication Skills

Supervision of Staff

Autonomous Decision Making

Education

Current registration with NMC / HCPC

Post-graduate L3 course or equivalent

PACR and PADRAP Modules

Job description

Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Urgent Care

NHS AfC: Band 7

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received prior to the advertised closing date.

Job overview

Are you a healthcare professional looking to make a difference in your community?
An exciting role for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner has been created to join our dynamic Out of Hours team, covering North Somerset or Bristol.

Our Urgent Care team strive to visit service users in their homes within 2 hours of receiving an urgent referral. Driven by compassion and determination, on arrival you will aim to provide appropriate clinical care to prevent avoidable acute hospital admissions or facilitate urgent referrals to secondary care, where this will benefit the individual’s clinical outcome.

The Advanced Clinical Practitioner is part of the Out of Hours (OOH) Service, providing urgent specialist clinical assessment and interventions for adults aged 18 and over within a person centred plan of care.

We have two posts available, one in North Somerset based at Castlewood and one in Bristol based at the Withywood Centre. Ever-growing, we would love to see your application today.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide urgent assessment, treatment and diagnosis of clinically deteriorating service user.
2. Triage and evaluate clinical information from examination and history taking and initiate appropriate treatment and/or referral.
3. Signpost appropriately to other services in the identified healthcare pathway, such as Community Rehabilitation Units.
4. Prescribe, supply and/or administer medication and treatments according to agreed protocols, including intravenous medication if appropriate.
5. Maintain accurate and systematic documentation of service user’s interactions and clinical care provided, by sharing care records with GP practices in a timely fashion.
6. Order and interpret diagnostic tests where appropriate.
7. Support the Out of Hours team, including assisting service users who have fallen, using relevant equipment.
8. Provide a service that focuses on achieving and demonstrating overall improvements in health care for people who are complex, frail and have urgent care needs.

Working for our organisation

Looking for a job to fit around you and your lifestyle? Perhaps you’re ready to take your next step, considering a career change, or seeking a rewarding new role where you can make a real difference.

At Sirona care & health we provide local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. From clinical to clerical, we offer a variety of location-based and community roles to choose from with hours to fit around you.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.

You’ll receive Agenda for Change hourly rates with a 12.5% annual leave bonus, increased pay for weekend, out-of-hours, or Bank Holiday shifts, along with NHS benefits such as high street discounts and a generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme. Our offer includes a range of paid-for training, and support for your health and wellbeing with our Employee Assistance Programme.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role before applying.

Sirona care & health currently recruit overseas nursing and therapy staff through an NHS Trust Supplier and we adhere to the NHSE Code of Practice in relation to applicants from Red List countries. We are therefore, unable to accept any direct applications to this advert from candidates who are not already based in the UK.

This post is not an Advanced Practice role that is mapped to the HEE Multi-professional Framework for Advancing Practice. These posts are currently under review and are likely to undergo a name change in the near future. This is because these roles do not require candidates to work across all 4 pillars of Advanced Practice to MSc level and are therefore banded at AFC Band 7. They do, however require a skillset working at or towards MSc level in the Advanced Practice Clinical Pillar. This role will not be eligible for training funding for an MSc in Advanced Practice however training may be supported depending on individual learning needs identified following Sirona CPD funding application processes.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current registration with NMC / HCPC or other relevant professional body
• Successful completion of a relevant post-graduate L3 (or higher) course or appropriate equivalent modules.
• Physical Assessment & Clinical Reasoning (PACR), Physical Examination and Diagnostic Reasoning Module (PADRAP or equivalent) and Non-Medical Independent & Supplementary Prescriber or willingness to undertake.
• Non-Medical Independent & Supplementary Prescriber or willingness to undertake.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of emergency / urgent care service user assessment and planning / designing emergency care plans.
• Experience in a relevant Primary Care and or Pre-Hospital and or Acute area of practice.
• Ability to work with a high level of autonomy and shared decision making.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex clinical information.
• Experience of effective supervision of junior staff and students.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.