Advanced Clinical Practitioner (Primary Care)

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

• To be able to independently prescribe

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within either Primary Care or the Community

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

The Phoenix Practice

Address

7 Brampton Grove

Hendon

NW4 4AE

Employer's website

https://www.phoenixpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)