Advanced Practitioner

Kernow Health CIC; Truro; On-site; GBP 79,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Leave buy/sell option

Vivup employee benefits

CPD via Cornwall Primary Care Training

Training Hub access

Job summary

Kernow Health CIC in Cornwall is seeking an Advanced Practitioner to deliver urgent care assessment and management across the 111 Clinical Assessment Service, with face-to-face centres and home visiting settings. You will practice safely and independently within your scope of competence, and ensure timely follow-up or referrals as needed.

The role involves autonomous clinical decision-making, collaboration with GPs and the wider multidisciplinary team, and adherence to governance and quality

Responsibilities

• Autonomous clinical practice and safe, independent decision-making within scope of competence.
• Conduct comprehensive history taking, physical examination, and clinical assessment.
• Formulate and implement management plans and arrange safe follow-up or onward referral.

Job description

As an Advanced Practitioner with Kernow Health CIC, you will: Autonomous Clinical Practice Deliver high-quality urgent care assessment and management for patients across the 111 Clinical Assessment Service, face-to-face treatment centres and home visiting settings. Practise safely and independently within your scope of competence. Clinical Decision-Making Undertake comprehensive history taking, examination and clinical assessment. Formulate management plans, prescribe where appropriate, and ensure safe follow-up or onward referral. Integrated Working Work collaboratively with GPs, Clinical Shift Supervisors, Care Navigators and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and efficient patient flow across the IUCS pathway. Clinical Governance & Quality Adhere to governance processes including incident reporting, audit participation and reflective practice. Contribute to maintaining high clinical standards and service improvement initiatives. Escalation & Risk Management Recognise and appropriately elevate deteriorating patients or complex cases. Support system flow through sound clinical judgement and safe risk assessment. Safeguarding & IPC Maintain safeguarding vigilance for adults and children and adhere to Infection Prevention and Control standards across all clinical environments. Digital & Documentation Standards Demonstrate strong digital literacy, ensuring accurate, contemporaneous and high-quality documentation across multiple clinical systems.

Kernow Health CIC is a Community Interest Company supporting General Practice and delivering Primary Care Services at scale across Cornwall. Established in 2011 by a group of Cornwall practices, we are a GP-owned provider organisation delivering several NHS contracts, including

Option 1: 40 hours per month available as part of a fixed or flexible four week rolling rota working weekends. Option 2: 15-37.5 hours per week working within a relief role with contracted hours and covering service gaps during evenings and nights. (A minimum of four weeks' notice of shifts is provided with relief working in this role) Please can you indicate in your application the numbers of hours you are looking for and option 1 or 2 shift patterns. Salary: £40.42 / £42.40 / £44.38 per hour base rate (Level 1 / 2 / 3 dependent on experience and qualifications) plus unsocial enhancements in line with service requirements. Contract: Permanent The primary base is Cudmore House, with clinical work allocated across treatment centres or home visiting cars throughout Cornwall. Advanced Practitioners must be able to attend Cudmore House and other clinical sites in line with operational need. There are a mixture of daytime, evening and overnight shifts available however as an out-of-hours predominant service the vast majority of the rota occurs between 1830 0800 Monday Friday and 24/7 across weekends.,

• Shift patterns across weekdays, evenings, weekends and nights with competitive unsocial hours enhancements
• Access to NHS Pension Scheme
• Competitive sickness, maternity and paternity provisions
• Competitive annual leave, with the ability to buy and sell leave
• Employee benefit programme through Vivup
• Access to training and continuous professional development through the Cornwall Primary Care Training Hub
• The opportunity to work within a high performing, supportive, multidisciplinary and forward-thinking urgent care service