Advanced Practitioner

Integrated Care System; Wigan; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An integrated healthcare team is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner for the Wigan North PCN. The role involves providing care in care homes, ensuring high-quality patient outcomes, and collaborating with various healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to clinical excellence and continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience in advanced clinical practice and prescribing.
• Demonstrated clinical governance knowledge.
• Experience in a primary care environment.

Responsibilities

• Conduct regular ward rounds in care homes.
• Review and complete medication plans.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Clinical knowledge and skills

Communication

Problem solving

Flexibility

Education

Masters degree

Qualified independent prescriber - V300

Teaching qualification

ALS and PALS

Job description

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Wigan North PCN team.

The successful candidate will play a vital role in our PCN team, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the best outcomes for patients. This position requires an individual who is passionate about clinical excellence and committed to continuous professional development.

The job will involve being part of a care home team providing support to the care homes allocated to the 4 practices within the PCN.

The role will be employed under the Additional roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) meeting the requirements outlines in the Network Contract Agreement DES.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a regular ward round to patients at care homes within the PCN
• Ensuring the care homes are following the correct procedures in raising daily queries to the appropriate teams to reduce the workload on the practices
• Complete and reviewing care plans for all patients within the care homes
• Responsible for all medication related queries and compliance for patients within the care homes
• Work alongside the pharmacy technician to review and complete medication reviews for patients within the care homes
• Attend meetings with the PCN to provide updates and discuss service
• Ensure continued compliance with indemnity cover
• Practice in compliance with respective code of professional conduct and within scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for decisions, actions and omissions
• Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of own competence, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information
• Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make a positive change
• Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning
• Be a professional role model for the PCN

About us

We are a PCN of 4 practices in the Wigan North area (Aspull Surgery, Beech Hill Medical Practice, Shevington Surgery and Standish Medical Practice) and work closely together to deliver high-quality patient care.

Job responsibilities

All staff have a duty to conform to the following:

Equality, Diversity andInclusion

A good attitude and positive action towards Equality Diversity& Inclusion (ED&I) createsan environment where all individuals can achieve their full potential.Creating such an environment is important for three reasons it improvesoperational effectiveness, it is morally the right thing to do and it isrequired by law.

Patients and their families have the right to betreated fairly and be routinely involved in decisions about their treatmentand care. They can expect to be treated with dignity and respect and will notbe discriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, genderreassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race,religion, or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

Patients have a responsibility to treat otherpatients and our staff with dignity and respect.

Staff have the right to be treated fairly inrecruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to work in anenvironment where diversity is valued, and equality of opportunity ispromoted. Staff will not be discriminated against on any grounds includingage, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership,pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, or belief, sex, or sexualorientation. Staff have a responsibility to ensure that they treat ourpatients and their colleagues with dignity and respect.

Safety, Health, Environment andFire (SHEF)

This PCN is committed to supporting and promotingopportunities for staff to maintain their health, wellbeing, and safety.

The post holder is to manage and assess risk withintheir areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place toprotect staff and patients, and monitor work areas and practices to ensurethey are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety andsecurity legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

All personnel have a duty to take reasonable care ofhealth and safety at work for themselves, their team, and others and tocooperate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safetyrequirements.

All personnel are to comply with the:

Health and Safety atWork Act 1974

Fire Precautions(workplace) Regulations 1999

Other statutorylegislation which may be brought to the post holders attention

Confidentiality

The PCN is committed to maintaining an outstandingconfidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retainsensitive information relating to their health and other matters pertainingto their care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect that allstaff will always respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality.

It is essential that, if the legal requirements areto be met and the trust of our patients is to be retained, all staff mustprotect patient information and provide a confidential service.

Quality and ContinuousImprovement (CI)

To preserve and improve the quality of the PCNsoutput, all personnel are required to think not only of what they do, but howthey achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be ableto develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way we work.

The responsibility for this rests with everyoneworking within the PCN, to look for opportunities to improve quality andshare good practice, and to discuss, highlight and work with the team tocreate opportunities to improve patient care.

Our PCN continually strive to improve work processesthat deliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our serviceprovision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement where everyonecounts, and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions toimprove our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Staff should interpret national strategies andpolicies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the valuesand culture of general practice.

All staff are to contribute to investigations androot cause analyses whilst participating in serious incident investigationsand multidisciplinary case reviews.

Induction

We will provide a full induction programme andmanagement will support you throughout the process.

Learning and development

The effective use of training and development isfundamental to ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriateskills, knowledge, attitude, and competences to perform their role. All staffwill be required to partake in and complete mandatory training as directed.It is an expectation for this post holder to assess their own learning needsand undertake learning as appropriate

The post holder will undertake mentorship for teammembers, and disseminate learning and information gained to other teammembers, to share good practice and inform others about current and futuredevelopments (e.g., courses and conferences).

Collaborative working

All staff are to recognise the significance ofcollaborative working, understand their own role and scope, and identify howthis may develop over time. Staff are to prioritise their own workload andensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the cultureof the team.

Teamwork is essential in multidisciplinaryenvironments, and the post holder is to work as an effective and responsibleteam member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop newways of working, while working effectively with others to clearly definevalues, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery

Effective communication is essential and all staffmust ensure they communicate in a way which enables the sharing ofinformation in an appropriate manner.

All staff should delegate clearly and appropriately,adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence.

Plans and outcomes by which to measure successshould be agreed.

Managing information

All staff should use technology and appropriatesoftware as an aid to management in the planning, implementation andmonitoring of care, and presenting and communicating information.

Data should be reviewed and processed using accurateSNOMED/read codes to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval formonitoring and audit processes.

Staff will be given detailed information during theinduction process regarding policy and procedure.

The post holder must adhere to the informationcontained within the PCN/practice directives, ensuring protocols are alwaysadhered to.

Security

The security of the PCN is the responsibility of allpersonnel. The post holder must ensure they always remain vigilant and reportany suspicious activity immediately to their line manager.

Under no circumstances are staff to share the codesfor the door locks with anyone, and they are to ensure that restricted areasremain effectively secured. Likewise, password controls are to be maintainedand passwords are not to be shared.

Professional conduct

All staff are required to dress appropriately fortheir role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of practice within the four pillars
• Job plan that demonstrates advanced clinical practice and has equity with peers working at this level
• Experience of prescribing and undertaking medication reviews
• Experience of working in a primary care environment

Other Requirements

• Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
• Occupational health clearance
• Meet the requirements and produce evidence for revalidation
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) commensurate with the role of an ACP
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across locality on a regular basis
• Flexibility to work outside core office hours

Clinical Knowledge and Skills

• Relevant Clinical knowledge and skills
• Understand the importance of evidence-based practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies
• Understand the requirement for PGDs and associated policy
• Polite and confident, flexible and cooperative
• Motivated, forward thinker
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• High levels of integrity and loyalty
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations as well as ability to work under pressure/in stressful situations
• Knowledge of public health issues in the local area
• Awareness of issues within the wider health arena

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters degree as detailed within the HEE document tilted Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England
• Qualified independent prescriber - V300
• Registered on their appropriate professional register
• Teaching qualification
• ALS and PALS

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.