Urgent Care Advanced Practitioner - 24/7 Shifts

KERNOW HEALTH; Truro; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Competitive annual leave (buy/sell)

Vivup employee benefits

CPD via Cornwall Primary Care Training

Job summary

Kernow Health CIC is a Community Interest Company delivering NHS urgent care services across Cornwall, with the 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service and other programmes. The primary base is Cudmore House, with clinical work across treatment centres or home visits.

A mix of day, evening and night shifts supports a 24/7 operation. Advanced practitioners must attend multiple clinical sites in line with need, and staff benefit from NHS Pension and a multidisciplinary, forward-thinking team.

Qualifications

• Autonomous Clinical Practice: Deliver high-quality urgent care assessment and management for patients across the 111 Clinical Assessment Service, face-to-face treatment centres and home visiting settings.
• Clinical Decision-Making: Undertake comprehensive history taking, examination and clinical assessment; formulate management plans and ensure safe follow-up.
• Integrated Working: Work with GPs, Clinical Shift Supervisors, Care Navigators and the multidisciplinary team to maintain patient flow.
• Clinical Governance & Quality: Contribute to governance, audits, incident reporting and service improvement.
• Escalation & Risk Management: Recognise deteriorating patients and elevate complex cases with sound judgement.
• Safeguarding & IPC: Maintain safeguarding vigilance and IPC standards across environments.
• Digital & Documentation Standards: Ensure accurate documentation across multiple clinical systems.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous Clinical Practice delivers urgent care assessment and management across 111 services, centres and home visiting settings.
• Clinical Decision-Making involves history taking, examination, assessment, planning, prescribing where appropriate and safe follow-up.
• Integrated Working requires collaboration with GPs and the wider MDT to ensure safe patient flow.
• Clinical Governance & Quality includes governance processes, audits and improvement initiatives.
• Escalation & Risk Management focuses on deteriorating patients and complex case escalation.
• Safeguarding & IPC maintains safeguarding and infection control standards.
• Digital & Documentation Standards ensures accurate, contemporaneous documentation across systems.

Job description

Kernow Health CIC is a Community Interest Company delivering NHS urgent care services across Cornwall, with the 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service and other programmes. The primary base is Cudmore House, with clinical work across treatment centres or home visits.

A mix of day, evening and night shifts supports a 24/7 operation. Advanced practitioners must attend multiple clinical sites in line with need, and staff benefit from NHS Pension and a multidisciplinary, forward-thinking team.