Job summary
Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network is made up of several GP practices in the Rotherham area. We are recruiting a number of Advanced Clinical Practitioners to work in our friendly GP Practices.
We are recruiting for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner to work across two of our practices; York Road Surgery and Shakespeare Road Medical Centre. This post is for 30 hours per week split across the two practices, hours can be disucssed at interview.
The Advanced Clinical Practitioner will utilise a range of advanced
skills and expert knowledge for patients presenting with undifferentiated and
undiagnosed conditions. The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in
the clinical decision-making process. Clinical care will include new patient
clerking, initial history taking, face-to-face assessment, examination,
diagnosis, treatment, management, referral, and evaluation of care.
Main duties of the job
- Work autonomously and be accountable for his/her own professional
actions.
- Undertake clinical decisions at an advanced level using expert knowledge
and clinical skills to deliver holistic care to people accessing primary care
service.
- Assess undifferentiated patients with a range of acute, non-urgent and
chronic medical decisions.
- Obtain a clinical history, undertake appropriate physical examinations,
and investigations, formulate differential diagnosis and carry through
management treatment plans ensuring relevant follow up.
- Undertake pre booked emergency clinics, face to face consultations,
telephone or video consultation.
- Working as part of a larger primary care network to improve patient care
and ensure more efficient ways of working.
- Promote a learning environment for patients, nurses and other health
professionals.
About us
Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network includes 7 member practices. We provide primary care for over 52,000 patients in the Rotherham area.
Our aim by working together to co-ordinate, plan and share resources is that we will develop a stronger, more resilient primary care offer for all our patients.
This new way of working brings together partners from across the health, social care and voluntary sector to design and deliver innovation in services better placed to meet the needs of our communities, ensure better health outcomes for patients and utilise resources in a more efficient way. This includes the creation of additional roles in our practices including Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers and Care Coordinators.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintain their professional
registration. Work within the most up to date relevant professional standards
set by individual profession governing body.
- Record accurate consultation data in
patients records in the clinical systems (eg: EMIS, System One) in accordance with the
up-to-date professional standards
- Make effective use of the clinical
system by ensuring consistent and accurate data entry and use of read codes.
- Instigate necessary invasive and
non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports
to discuss with clinician as appropriate.
- As an independent prescriber, the
post holder will prescribe safe, effective and appropriate medication as
defined by current legislative framework within scope of practice.
- Provide safe, evidence-based,
cost-effective, individualised patient care
- Offer a holistic service to patients
and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of
care/support, with an emphasis on prevention and self-care and support patientswithSocio-economic
issues.
- Promote health and well-being
through, health education, screening and therapeutic communication skills to
improve self-care and promote independence for patients.
- Participate in screening patients for
disease risk factors and early signs of disease.
- Refer patients directly to other
services/agencies as appropriate or after discussion with a GP.
- Undertake home visits, (including
care homes), telephone/video consultations, telephone triage and support future
developments in order to improve service delivery and patient experience.
Encouraging patients to rely on face-to-face consultations only where there is
clinical need to do so.
- Triaging Patients for GP emergency
surgery and support the on-call GP as appropriate.
- Working with allied health
professional to ensure Quality and Outcome Frameworks are delivered
- Under complex decision making which
involves sensitive or contentious information and occasionally deal with
situations which are hostile or emotive.
- Exercise professional judgment to
manage risk appropriately especially where there maybe complex and unpredictable
events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of the individuals
families and carers.
- Use enhanced communication,
negotiation, and conflict management skills and demonstrate empathy,
reassurance and adopt persuasive skills to overcome barriers to acceptance.
- Work with multi-disciplinary team
within the Practice, and across the wider primary care network to promote
integrated and seamless pathways of care
- Monitor the effectiveness of their
own clinical practice through the quality assurance strategies such as the use
of audit and peer review
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse registered with the Nursing and Midwifery.
- Council (NMC) or, Paramedic registered with the Health Care Professions.
- Council (HCPC) or Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Registered as an independent nonmedical prescriber.
- A minimum of 2 modules at Level 7.
- One module must have included assessment of clinical examination skills.
Desirable
- MSc (Advanced Practice) Mentorship qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of both team and autonomous working.
- Can show evidence of using autonomous physical examination and assessment skills.
- Can demonstrate a broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
- Consolidated Independent Prescribing experience.
- Use of examination skills in practice.
- Experience of telephone triage.
Desirable
- Experience of working in Primary Care.
- Experience of working in a GP Practice.
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
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Wentworth 1 Primary Care Network
Address
York Road Surgery
Rotherham
South Yorkshire
S65 1PW