Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner Fixed Term Contract

Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd; Camberley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner, where you'll play a vital role in supporting GP Practices in urgent care and minor illnesses for children aged 0-17. This role offers a flexible part-time schedule, and you'll work collaboratively within a proactive clinical team, ensuring seamless healthcare delivery in Surrey Heath.

Qualifications

• Experience in urgent and on-the-day appointments.
• Effective management of paediatric care.
• Possession of an independent prescribing qualification.

Responsibilities

• Support core general practice capacity and manage a caseload of urgent care needs.
• Provide care for patients including diagnosis and evaluation of care.
• Demonstrate safe clinical decision-making in paediatric contexts.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice skills

Management of children with long-term conditions

Clinical examination skills

Strong clinical leadership

Highly effective communication skills

Education

Relevant health-related degree

Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent

First level professional registration with appropriate body

Job description

Paediatric Advanced Clinical Practitioner Fixed Term Contract

Employer Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd Location Camberley, Surrey, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 20 Jun 2025

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Job summary

Thisrole is an exciting opportunity for an experienced paediatric advanced clinicalpractitioner (PACP) with existing prescribing skills to join our Primary CareNetwork (PCN). You will support our local GP Practices with the provision ofadditional patient access on Saturdays and weekday evenings, working from arotating site across our 7 GP Practices.

You will work under a Fixed Term Contract. Your work will primarily befocussed on urgent and on the day appointments, but may include some routinegeneral practice appointments depending on the needs of the PCN/practices andyour skillset and experience.

Main duties of the job

You will support core general practice capacity and work as part of a positive, proactive and collaborative primary care clinical team supporting children aged 0-17 years in Surrey Heath.You will be experienced in general practice and be able to work autonomously, managing a caseload of booked appointments for on-the-day and urgent care needs, with minimal indirect supervision from the onsite GP under a Primary Care Consultant model.You will need to be skilled in providing urgent care and minor illness management and providing support to children with long term conditions.

You will be able to expertly manage an identified caseload or cohort(s) of patients and presenting complaints; providing care for the presenting patient from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care, demonstrating safe, competent clinical decision-making and expert care evidence-based care.

About us

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

Asa GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our memberpractices and to champion primary care by working with local general practiceand system partners, in the provision of community based healthcareservices. We are dedicated to providingsafe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary careservices in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to qualityservice delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everythingwe do, and we prideourselves in ensuring our patients feelsafe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they maybe feeling vulnerable.

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please refer to Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsibilities and Person Specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Maths and English GCSE's (C and above) or equivalent
• First level professional registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, GPhC).
• Relevant health-related degree.
• Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent level of practice evidenced through a recognised credentialing process.
• Mentor/teaching qualification.
• Extended/independent prescribing qualification.

Desirable

• Community or Primary Care specialist qualification.
• Care of the elderly specialist qualification.
• Additional qualification in management of a specific long term condition.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Knowledge

Essential

• Accountability of own role and other roles.
• Local and national health policy.
• Wider health economy.
• Clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Patient group directions and associated policy.

Desirable

• Able to identify determinants of health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.
• Knowledge of public health issues in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.

Skills

Essential

• Advanced clinical practice skills, management of children with long-term conditions, urgent and on-the-day needs. Management of children with complex needs. Ability to manage children at the point of presentation.
• Clinical examination skills.
• Strong clinical leadership.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Negotiation, resource and conflict management.
• Change management / Service improvement.
• Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.

Desirable

• Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
• Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience.
• Recent paediatric primary or community experience.
• Healthcare-led management of paediatric minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
• Healthcare-led paediatric triage.
• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Clinical Leadership.
• Audit and Research.
• Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Qualification.

Desirable

• Project management.
• Working with community development initiatives.
• Health-needs assessment.
• Experience as a supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.

Other

Essential

• Self-directed practitioner.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
• Flexibility.
• Team player.
• Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions.
• Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
• Commitment to CPD/Revalidation.
• Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Maths and English GCSE's (C and above) or equivalent
• First level professional registration with appropriate professional body (e.g. HCPC, NMC, GPhC).
• Relevant health-related degree.
• Advanced Clinical Practice / MSc or equivalent level of practice evidenced through a recognised credentialing process.
• Mentor/teaching qualification.
• Extended/independent prescribing qualification.

Desirable

• Community or Primary Care specialist qualification.
• Care of the elderly specialist qualification.
• Additional qualification in management of a specific long term condition.
• Clinical supervision training and experience.

Knowledge

Essential

• Accountability of own role and other roles.
• Local and national health policy.
• Wider health economy.
• Clinical governance issues in primary care.
• Patient group directions and associated policy.

Desirable

• Able to identify determinants of health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.
• Knowledge of public health issues in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.

Skills

Essential

• Advanced clinical practice skills, management of children with long-term conditions, urgent and on-the-day needs. Management of children with complex needs. Ability to manage children at the point of presentation.
• Clinical examination skills.
• Strong clinical leadership.
• Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Negotiation, resource and conflict management.
• Change management / Service improvement.
• Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.

Desirable

• Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.
• Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation.

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience.
• Recent paediatric primary or community experience.
• Healthcare-led management of paediatric minor illness, minor ailments and injuries.
• Healthcare-led paediatric triage.
• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Clinical Leadership.
• Audit and Research.
• Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Qualification.

Desirable

• Project management.
• Working with community development initiatives.
• Health-needs assessment.
• Experience as a supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision.

Other

Essential

• Self-directed practitioner.
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic.
• Flexibility.
• Team player.
• Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns on a frequent basis e.g. working to deadlines, interruptions.
• Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses.
• Commitment to CPD/Revalidation.
• Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey Heath Community Providers Ltd
Address

Theta Building

Lyon Way

Camberley

Surrey

GU16 7ER

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