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NHS Jobs; Blandford Forum; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in the United Kingdom is seeking a clinical professional to assess patients with acute illness or chronic disease reviews, undertake home visits, and contribute to triage using SystmConnect.

You will diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate care; prescribe and review medications; and support patients and carers to follow treatment plans, with emphasis on evidence-based practice.

Qualifications

• Assess patients presenting with acute illness or for review of chronic disease conditions.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols and formularies.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients presenting with acute illness or for review of chronic disease conditions.
• Undertake home visits for acute illness.
• Diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Assess diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Triage

Communication

Tools

SystmConnect

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Assess patients presenting with acute illness or for review of chronic disease conditions.
• Undertake home visits for acute illness
• Play a part in our triage team to assess and sign post patient requests received via SystmConnect.
• Diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate treatment/interventions and care for patients presenting with an undifferentiated diagnosis.
• Clinically examine and assess patient needs from a physiological and psychological perspective, and plan clinical care accordingly.
• Assess diagnosis, plan, implement and evaluate interventions/treatments for patients with complex needs.
• Proactively identify, diagnose and manage treatment plans for patients at risk of developing a long-term condition (as appropriate).
• Diagnose and manage both acute and chronic conditions, integrating both drug- and nondrug-based treatment methods into a management plan.
• Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols and formularies.
• Work with patients and their carers in order to support compliance with and adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Provide information and advice on prescribed or over-the-counter medication on medication regimens, side-effects and interactions.
• Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self-care.
• Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate with and support patients who are receiving bad news.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.
• Attend and contribute to practice and primary care team meetings.
• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NMC.
• Recognise and work within the multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Deliver care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.
• Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.
• Initiate and participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the organisation and its activities.
• In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.
• Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care.
• Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.
• Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
• Create clear referral mechanisms to meet patient need.
• Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.
• Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.
• Discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.
• Manage and lead on the delivery of specifically identified services or projects as agreed with the practice management team.
• Undertake mentorship for more junior staff, assessing competence against set standards.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments (e.g. courses and conferences).
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Safeguarding

• All members of staff have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people in all relevant areas of their work.
• This will include timely attendance at relevant training events and compliance with the Practices Policies and Procedures and Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Inter-Agency Safeguarding Procedures.