Job responsibilities
Darwin Medical Practice
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
As contract
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Reporting Relationships
Responsible to: Clinical Services Manager
Responsible For: N/A
About Darwin Medical Practice
Darwin Medical Practiceprovides services from Greenwood Health Centre, Lichfield Road, Burntwood, St Chads Health Centre, Dimbles Lane, Lichfield and Chasetown Medical Centre, 29-31 High Street, Chasetown, Burntwood.
Our aim is to deliver a high quality service which will benefit our patients. With a large team working together we will maintain and improve the quality of care with the sharing of expertise and skills, this will enable patients to have more choice. We have a coordinated approach, developing our teams to support patients with long term and complex conditions.
We value our relationship with our patients and have an active Patient Participation Group to help us deliver the best service possible.
Let us help patients live a full and active life.
Teams
The following teams make up Darwin Medical Practice
- Business support
- Clinical staff including GPs and Partners
- Clinical support
- Management
- Reception
Statement Of Purpose
Job Purpose
As an Advanced Clinical Practitioner, you will be acting within your professional boundaries, providing care for patients from history taking, clinical assessment, treatment and evaluation of their care under the supervision of a GP. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, within the remit of your training for patients within the Practice.
Principal Accountabilities
Clinical
1. Review patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems and make an assessment of their healthcare needs, diagnose, treat, and refer where necessary.
2. Assess, plan and provide skilled, high quality nursing care for patients with palliative care needs and support the family both prior to and immediately after death. Anticipate and respond to changing patient needs whilst maintaining their independence, privacy and dignity.
3. Participate in preventative healthcare services as delegated and agreed by the Practice.
4. Undertake face-to-face, telephone, and online consultations for routine problems as determined by the practice including management of patients with long-term conditions.
5. Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes.
6. Contribute to the delivery of the QOF and Enhanced Services targets to consistently achieve high standards of safe, evidence-based, cost-effective patient care and service delivery.
7. Refer patients directly to other services or agencies using appropriate referral pathways.
8. Utilizing clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice and partake in clinical audits, significant event reviews and other research and analysis tasks.
9. Ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence and to acknowledge limitations.
10. Prescribe and review medication for therapeutic effectiveness, appropriate to patients needs and in accordance with evidence-based practice and national and practice protocols, and within scope of practice.
11. Undertake home visits when required.
12. Request and interpret results of laboratory investigations when necessary.
13. Developing and agreeing a personal development plan (PDP) utilising a reflective approach to practice, operating under appropriate clinical supervision, and participating in continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities by keeping up to date with evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of your role, meeting clinical governance guidelines for continuing professional development (CPD).
Administration
14. Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team.
15. Work closely with other members of the MDT in the setting up and/or improving of systems for monitoring and measuring performance against the PCN DES, QOF and any other relevant targets.
16. Ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients notes using agreed read codes.
17. Ensure collection and maintenance of statistical information required for regular and ad hoc reports and audit.
18. Restocking and maintenance of clinical areas and consulting rooms
19. Attend and participate in practice meetings as required.
20. To collect data and participate in regular practice audits and research projects.
21. To contribute to the preparation of any practice development plan
22. While seeking treatments, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
23. In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the postholder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
General
24. To maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for all primary health care team staff, patients, carers and co-workers from other agencies. Ensure that all statutory regulations (e.g., Health & Safety, COSHH, etc) are implemented and adhered to
25. To always promote a professional approach by attire and attitude to patients and staff both in and out of the practice
26. To maintain own continuous professional development and ensure PDP kept up to date in line with the requirements of the practice.
27. Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal and will be in accordance with practice requirements. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments.
28. The post holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources
29. The post holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
30. Any other reasonable duties that may be required from time to time.
The Practice is open from 8.00am until 6.30pm, with regular extended hours surgeries. It is expected that all staff will work on a rota basis, according to the needs of the service.
The contents of this job description and person specification will be reviewed on an annual basis in line with the Practice training and development review policy.
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