Senior Advanced Clinician — Urgent Care

FCMS; Morecambe; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Attendance Bonus

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Job summary

FCMS in Morecambe is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide autonomous assessment, diagnosis and management of patients at the Urgent Treatment Centre. The post requires capable leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, and scope for independent decision-making within unscheduled care.

Evening/weekend work is expected, with a strong emphasis on patient safety and continuous professional development.

Qualifications

• Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in the primary or urgent care setting.
• Experienced in undertaking telephone triage and remote prescribing
• Teaching and mentorship
• Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environment
• Maintained development of clinical leadership skills
• Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills
• Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources
• Able to articulate personal development needs
• Implementation of audit/research recommendations and demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Evidence of significant involvement in change
• Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Awareness of impact of evidence-based practice within unscheduled care
• Ability to work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, maintaining and evaluating links to manage risk across organisation and setting
• Ability to identify risk assessment and act accordingly

Responsibilities

• Assess, treat, and advise patients presenting with health care needs.
• Provide supervision of the clinical team, assisting and developing their team and individuals
• When required ensure patients are referred on to other members of the primary health care team or secondary care as necessary and support and guide others as required.
• Ensure all practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries and scope of competence of individuals and to acknowledge limitations.
• Work at an advanced level of practice reflected under the 4 pillars of advanced practice of the HEE
• Perform investigatory procedures, including assessing patients with minor injuries, request, and review x-rays, treat minor injuries /implement expanded roles in practice
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the duties and responsibilities associated with an expert practitioner working within Unscheduled Primary Care.
• Develop and maintain clinical/nursing policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Ensure any patient information is up-to-date and produced in appropriate formats

Skills

Independent practice

Telephone triage

Remote prescribing

Teaching/mentorship

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Education

First Contact Practitioner / Advanced Practice qualification

RCN Credentialled practitioner

Tools

Adastra

Job description

FCMS in Morecambe is seeking an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to provide autonomous assessment, diagnosis and management of patients at the Urgent Treatment Centre. The post requires capable leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, and scope for independent decision-making within unscheduled care.

Evening/weekend work is expected, with a strong emphasis on patient safety and continuous professional development.