PCN Minor Illness Practitioner Bank

East of England, East of England

Bank

£25.60 to £28 an hour

Other Allied

PCN Minor Illness Practitioner Bank

Job summary

To provide face to face minor illness management, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing urgent, on the day (Same Day Urgent Care) to the registered patients of the GP Practices in Surrey Heath.

To provide highly skilled evidence based nursing / AHP services to patients as an essential part of the health care provided by the GP Federation and the local member GP Practices.

To support the Federation / PCN to establish innovative solutions to provide flexible additional nursing / AHP support to GP Practices in Surrey Heath.

To support the development and delivery of policy and procedures, and providing clinical leadership to appropriate others as required.

The role requires you to function autonomously and within your sphere of competency whilst being assisted and supervised by our Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) and GPs.

Main duties of the job

To demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, working within their scope of practice.
To participate in assessing, diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness, including giving advice on and prescribing medicines (where this is within the scope of practice, competence and confidence).
To discharge patients or refer them as appropriate to other healthcare professionals / external agencies.
To provide appropriate care and services to patients in all age ranges and level of health care needs, according to their level of competency and code of conduct.
To work closely with the wider urgent care teams in delivering high quality patient centred clinical care.
To support the triage and streaming process, including contributing to the triage and streaming decision making when required.
To participate in assessing patients with more complex presentations waiting to see the streaming clinician (GP or Advanced Clinical Practitioner).
To work in partnership with patients and their carers to assess individual health needs, plan appropriate care and use every appropriate opportunity to promote health and reduce the incidence or exacerbation of disease.
To be capable and confident in digital consultation where this is required.
To work as an autonomous practitioner within appropriate clinical and professional guidelines.

About us

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

As a GP Federation and Primary Care Network, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners, in the provision of community based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary care services in Surrey Heath and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

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

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see Supporting Documents for full Job Description, list of responsabilities and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered healthcare professional with the NMC or HCPC. Relevant professional/health degree. Mentor/teaching qualification. Clinical supervision training and experience. Post-registration qualification and ongoing CPD in minor illness management.

Desirable

Community or Primary Care specialist qualification. Care of the elderly specialist qualification. Additional qualification in a specific long term condition.

Skills

Essential

Phlebotomy. Strong clinical practice skills, management of patients with long-term conditions. Health checks in Primary Care. Management of patients with complex needs. Strong clinical leadership. Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal. Negotiation and conflict management. Teaching and mentorship in the clinical setting.

Desirable

Supervisor / facilitator for clinical supervision. Competent with spirometry performance and interpretation. Clinical examination skills. Nurse/AHP-led triage and management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries. Change management / Service improvement.

Experience

Essential

Significant post registration experience. Current or very recent primary and community experience. Developing protocols and clinical guidelines. Nurse / AHP Leadership. Audit.

Desirable

Project management. Working with community development initiatives. Health-needs assessment.

Other

Essential

Self-directed practitioner. Highly motivated and enthusiastic. Flexibility. Team player. Excellent awareness of own strengths and weaknesses. Commitment to CPD. Access to suitable transport in relation to the post.

Knowledge

Essential

Accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse/AHP-led service. Able to demonstrate CPD in relevant area, e.g. Cervical Screening, Respiratory LTC management. 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 on health in Surrey Heath / Frimley ICS.

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.