Minor Illness Practitioner Fixed Term

NHS; Camberley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated healthcare professional to join their team in providing urgent care services. This role involves managing minor illnesses, working collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, and delivering high-quality patient-centered care. The ideal candidate will possess strong clinical skills, effective communication abilities, and a commitment to continuous professional development. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on patient outcomes while working in a supportive and innovative environment focused on community health. If you are passionate about improving healthcare delivery, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with NMC or HCPC.
• Significant post-registration experience in primary and community care.

Responsibilities

• Provide face-to-face minor illness management and urgent care.
• Assess, diagnose, and treat patients presenting with minor illnesses.
• Work autonomously while being supervised by ACPs and GPs.

Skills

Phlebotomy

Clinical practice skills

Management of patients with long-term conditions

Health checks in Primary Care

Strong clinical leadership

Communication skills

Negotiation and conflict management

Teaching and mentorship

Clinical examination skills

Change management

Education

Relevant professional/health degree

Community or Primary Care specialist qualification

Mentor/teaching qualification

Post-registration qualification in minor illness management

Job description

To provide face to face minor illness management, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing urgent, on the day (Same Day Urgent Care) to the registered patients of the GP Practices in Surrey Heath.

To provide highly skilled evidence based nursing / AHP services to patients as an essential part of the health care provided by the GP Federation and the local member GP Practices.

To support the Federation / PCN to establish innovative solutions to provide flexible additional nursing / AHP support to GP Practices in Surrey Heath.

To support the development and delivery of policy and procedures, and providing clinical leadership to appropriate others as required.

The role requires you to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency whilst being assisted and supervised by our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and GPs.

Main duties of the job

• To demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice.
• To participate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (where this is within the scope of practice, competence and confidence).
• To discharge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals/external agencies.
• To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and levels of health care needs, according to their level of competency and code of conduct.
• To work closely with the wider urgent care teams in delivering high quality patient centred clinical care.
• To support the triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triage and streaming decision making when required.
• To participate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting to see the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner).
• To work in partnership with patients and their carers to assess individual health needs, plan appropriate care and use every appropriate opportunity to promote health and reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease.
• To be capable and confident in digital consultation where this is required.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner within appropriate clinical and professional guidelines.

About us

We are Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, which is a federation of 7 GP practices across 10 sites, covering a population of over 97,000 patients across Surrey Heath. We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our clinical and corporate support teams. Since 2019 we have hosted the Primary Care Network in Surrey Heath.

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

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.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Job responsibilities

Please see Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with the NMC or HCPC. Relevant professional/health degree. Mentor/teaching qualification. Clinical supervision training and experience. Post-registration qualification and ongoing CPD in minor illness management.
• Community or Primary Care specialist qualification. Care of the elderly specialist qualification. Additional qualification in a specific long term condition.

Skills

• Phlebotomy. Strong clinical practice skills, management of patients with long-term conditions. Health checks in Primary Care. Management of patients with complex needs. Strong clinical leadership. Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Negotiation and conflict management. Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.
• Supervisor/facilitator for clinical supervision. Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation. Clinical examination skills. Nurse/AHP-led triage and management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries. Change management / Service improvement.

Experience

• Significant post registration experience. Current or very recent primary and community experience. Developing protocols and clinical guidelines. Nurse/AHP Leadership. Audit.
• Project management. Working with community development initiatives. Health-needs assessment.

Other

• Self-directed practitioner. Highly motivated and enthusiastic. Flexibility. Team player. Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses. Commitment to CPD. Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

Knowledge

• Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse/AHP-led service. Able to demonstrate CPD in relevant area, e.g. Cervical Screening, Respiratory LTC management. Local and national health policy. Wider health economy. Clinical governance issues in primary care. Patient group directions and associated policy.
• Able to identify determinants on health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.

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 experience £25.60 to £28.00 an hour, plus Saturday enhancement.