Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will work autonomously to assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with both acute and long-term conditions. You will provide same-day and routine appointments, prescribe where appropriate, and contribute to the ongoing development of clinical services within the practice.

You will be supported by an experienced team and have opportunities to contribute to teaching, mentoring and service improvement.

• To monitor quality and continuity of patient care, actively participate in clinical audit, taking action to address improvements required.
• To ensure that care is based and planned on an individual assessment for a positive patient experience.
• To ensure that effective treatment planning and health promotion is carried out.
• To ensure accurate documentation of all care given.
• To communicate effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues.
• To be accountable for quality governance within own area of practice.
• To exercise authority and accountability within their sphere of influence.
• To act as a role model and expert clinician, providing support and guidance to all staff delivering care to patients.
• To represent the team and role within the practice and elsewhere as requested, promoting the organisation through local and national activity.
• To access patients at point of entry into health care system with undifferentiated undiagnosed problems.
• To take responsibility for making autonomous decisions in relation to patient care.

Personal and Professional Development:

• To adhere to Nursing and Midwifery Council/Health and Care Professional Council Code of Conduct.
• To undertake CPD activity linked to annual development review process.
• Take an active role in clinical governance, particularly clinical audit, guidelines and protocols.
• Liaise with providers of care and agencies. Set up and monitor developments in own practice. Maintain registration with relevant regulatory body.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise importance of effective communication within the team and wider practice teams and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members to build positive relationships.
• Adapt communication style where appropriate.
• Work effectively with all functions to deliver partnership aims.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to team effectiveness by reflecting on activities and making suggestions to improve performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, 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
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder 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.

Contribution to Implementation of Services:

The post holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other team members how policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.

Health & Safety:

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Health & Safety Policy:

• Using security systems according to guidelines.
• Identifying risks involved in work activities and managing them.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Using infection control procedures, maintaining work areas tidy and safe. Reporting potential risks identified.

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues:

• Act in a way recognising importance of peoples rights, consistent with practice procedures, policies and legislation.
• Respect privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• The post-holder will abide by the equal opportunities policy contained within the employee handbook

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with the general practice.
• Experience of working in a health care setting.

Qualifications

Essential

• Currently a registered healthcare professional.
• Full completed Advanced Clinical Practice MSc qualification.
• GCSE Mathematics and English (C or above).
• Good standard of education literacy and numeracy skills.

Desirable

• Previous experience in primary care.

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 (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Kensington Partnership

Address

Kensington Street Health Centre

Whitefield Place

Bradford

West Yorkshire

BD8 9LB

Employer's website

https://www.kensingtonpartnership.org/ (Opens in a new tab)