ARRS Advanced Care Practitioner - Burnley East PCN

Integrated Care System; Burnley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An Integrated Care System is seeking an Advanced Care Practitioner to provide high-level clinical leadership and patient care within the Burnley East PCN. This role involves working closely with an ageing population, ensuring quality care, coordinating with multi-agency teams, and applying advanced nursing practices. The successful candidate will need a Master's degree, strong leadership skills, and the ability to deliver integrated care effectively.

Qualifications

• Registered as a Non-Medical Prescriber.
• Extensive post-registration professional development.
• Commitment to equal opportunities and patient empowerment.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong clinical leadership to the PCN.
• Conduct patient assessments in residence.
• Ensure continuity of care and follow-up visits.

Skills

Clinical nursing issues

Negotiation

Problem-solving

Crisis management

Conflict management

Education

Masters Degree Qualification

NMC/HCPC Independent Non Medical Prescriber

Teaching or Mentoring qualification

Job description

ARRS Advanced Care Practitioner - Burnley East PCN

To provide senior nursing leadership and be responsible for overseeing the clinical care of our ageing population. You will be a highly experienced, senior nurse who works closely with patients (mainly those with a serious long-term condition or complex range of conditions) in their place of residence. You will be able to directly provide, plan and organise their care, working with the wider Primary Care Network team to ensure the highest level of care for the patients.

Main duties of the job

Understanding of the challenges of caring for people in their place of residence

• To provide strong, effective, and decisive clinical leadership to the wider PCN team to ensure a high standard of patient care is achieved.
• To work with clinical and non-clinical team members to identify unmet needs of the ageing population
• To work within the guidelines of Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) and the Care Home Local Enhanced Service (LES) and to contribute to the leadership of these contracts.
• Provide acute assessments to patients in their own residence to reduce hospital admissions including but not limited to:
• Take detailed comprehensive patient history
• Carry out physical examinations
• Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify potential diagnosis
• Refer patients when needed
• Decide on and carry out treatment, including the prescribing medicines
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care, including follow-up visits
• Use shared decision making to aid the creation and development of personalised care and support plans
• Work with the multi-agency teams to provide integrated care for patients
• Making sure patients get quality care
• Empowering others to take on a wider range of tasks
• Delivering services in line with service specifications and national requirements
• Making sure service users are treated with respect
• Preventing avoidable admission
• Resolving problems for service users and their relatives by building closer relationships

About us

The East Lancashire Alliance is a network of 9 PCNs covering 48 GP practices covering a population of over 390,000 patients across East Lancashire. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. The Alliance are proud to represent our member practices and to champion our Primary Care Partners, by working with local general practice and other system partners in the provision of patient centred, local healthcare services.

Each practice has a close-knit team of staff who collectively seek to improve the health of their patient populations.

East Lancashire is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside, to the heart of the vibrant inner Towns and Villages with great shopping, entertainment and dining options. Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity

Job responsibilities

Required Skills

Able to advise on clinical nursing issues, demonstrating an understanding of professional guidance, nursing policy and NICE guidelines

Able to negotiate and influence to achieve objectives without direct line management

Able to identify and establish credibility and good working relationships with representatives of external agencies and partners, and manage those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy

Ability to problem-solve, identify problems, review options and take appropriate action without a predetermined framework.

Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of service users and their carers, and are delivered with sensitivity

Ability to negotiate and reach compromises in a manner, which inspires confidence and respect from others at all, levels both within and outside the organisation.

Can demonstrate tactful and diplomatic approach when liaising with service users, carers, nursing colleagues and members of the MDT.

Able to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and equal access with a practical approach to ensure that policies are applicable to practice

Ability to manage and deal with crises

Ability to manage conflict effectively

Extensive post-registration professional development in area applying for.

Personal Attributes

Highly motivated and able to work independently prioritising work and effectively dealing with competing demands

Evidence of a flexible and sensitive approach to care

Innovative, creative and a willingness to try something new.

Comfortable working within a complex environment and can demonstrate a high level of perseverance, being committed to seeing plans through to their conclusion within agreed time scales.

Awareness of the environment and valuing the impact / effect of the environment on staff and patient experience.

Flexible about hours of work

Genuine commitment to equal opportunity, fair access, and patient empowerment

To have knowledge and skills pertaining to the relevant specialist area.

To have knowledge and understanding of the challenges of caring for people in their place of residence

To provide strong, effective, and decisive clinical leadership to the wider PCN team to ensure a high standard of patient care is achieved.

To work with clinical and non-clinical team members to identify unmet needs of the ageing population

To work within the guidelines of Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) and the Care Home Local Enhanced Service (LES) and to contribute to the leadership of these contracts.

Provide acute assessments to patients in their own residence to reduce hospital admissions including but not limited to:

• Take detailed comprehensive patient history
• Carry out physical examinations
• Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify potential diagnosis
• Refer patients when needed
• Decide on and carry out treatment, including the prescribing medicines

Ensure the provision of continuity of care, including follow-up visits

Use shared decision making to aid the creation and development of personalised care and support plans

Work with the multi-agency teams to provide integrated care for patients

Making sure patients get quality care

Empowering others to take on a wider range of tasks

Delivering services in line with service specifications and national requirements

Making sure service users are treated with respect

Preventing avoidable admission

Resolving problems for service users and their relatives by building closer relationships

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualified ACP Currently registered with the Nursing Midwifery Council NMC/HCPC Independent Non Medical Prescriber, Masters Degree Qualification, Advanced Digital badge - obtained through an accredited programme or the eportfolio supported route or Enrolled as a trainee at Centre for Advancing Practice accredited MSc advanced practice programme or enrolled on and progressed past the initial Learning Needs Analysis LNA stage of the Centre for Advancing Practice ePortfolio supported Route, linked with subsequent guaranteed progression onto a reimbursable Advanced Practitioner role on completion of the ePortfolio process.
• Teaching or Mentoring experience and/or qualification

Knowledge and skills

• Making sure patients get quality care
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care, including follow up visits
• To have knowledge and understanding of the challenges of caring for people in their place of residence

Experience

• To have knowledge and skills pertaining to the relevant specialist area.
• To have knowledge and understanding of the challenges of caring for people in their place of residence
• To work within the guidelines of Enhanced Health in Care Homes EHCH and the Care Home Local Enhanced Service LES and to contribute to the leadership of these contracts.
• Provide acute assessments to patients in their own residence to reduce
• hospital admissions including but not limited to:
• Take detailed comprehensive patient history
• Carry out physical examinations
• Use expert knowledge and clinical judgement to identify potential diagnosis
• Refer patients when needed
• Decide on and carry out treatment, including the prescribing medicine
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care, including follow-up visits
• Use shared decision making to aid the creation and development of personalised care and support plans
• Empowering others to take on a wider range of tasks
• Delivering services in line with service specifications and national requirements
• Making sure service users are treated with respect
• Preventing avoidable admission

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.

Depending on experienceBand 8a - Agenda For Change Like (NOT AFC)